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Hard times : an oral history of the great depression
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Hard times : an oral history of the great depression

Author: Studs Terkel
Publisher: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Recreates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans.
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Genre/Form: Personal narratives
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Biography
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Studs Terkel
ISBN: 1565846567 9781565846562
OCLC Number: 45447647
Notes: Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1970.
Description: xvii, 462 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: March --
Song --
Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band --
Hard travelin' --
Big money --
Man and boy --
God bless' the child --
Bonnie laboring boy --
Three strikes --
Old families --
Member of the chorus --
High life --
At the clinic --
Sixteen ton --
Farmer is the man --
Editor and publisher --
Concerning the new deal --
Unreconstructed populist --
Scarlet banners and novenas --
Doctor, Huey and Mr. Smith --
Circuit rider --
Gentleman from Kansas --
View of the woods --
Campus life --
Merely passing through --
Three o'clock in the morning --
Fine and lively arts --
Public servant-the city --
Evictions, arrests and other running sores --
Honor and humiliation --
Strive and succeed --
Epilogue.
Responsibility: Studs Terkel.

Abstract:

Recreates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans.

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