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by Studs Terkel
Description:
In The Good War Terkel presents the good, the bad, and the ugly memories of World War II from
a perspective of forty years of after the events. No matter how gruesome the memories are,
relatively few of the interviewees said they would have been better off without the experience. It
was a central and formative experience in their lives. Although 400,000 Americans perished, the
United States itself was not attacked again after Pearl Harbor, the economy grew, and there was a
new sense of world power that invigorated the country. Some women and African Americans
experienced new freedoms in the post war society, but good life after World War II was tarnished
by the threat of nuclear war.
About Author:
Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for "The Good War", and is best remembered for his
oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history. His 1985 book "The Good
War: An Oral History of World War Two", which detailed ordinary peoples' accounts of the
country's involvement in World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize. For "Hard Times: An Oral History of
the Great Depression", Terkel assembled recollections of the Great Depression that spanned the
socioeconomic spectrum, from Okies, through prison inmates, to the wealthy. His 1974 book,
"Working" also was highly acclaimed. In 1995, he received the Chicago History Museum "Making
History Award" for Distinction in Journalism and Communications. In 1997, Terkel was elected a
member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two years later, he received the George
Polk Career Award in 1999.
Other Editions:
- The Good War: Oral History of WWII (Mass Market Paperback)
Books By Author:
- Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About
What They Do
- Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
- Race: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About The American
Obsession
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth and Hunger for a
Faith
- And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous
Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South
- The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
- Going Native
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