Working

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ADAM COHEN OF THE NEW YORK TIMESPerhaps Studs Terkel's best-known book, Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, from a policeman to a piano tuner, this book pr [...]
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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ADAM COHEN OF THE NEW YORK TIMESPerhaps Studs Terkel's best-known book, Working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, from a policeman to a piano tuner, this book provides an enduring portrait of people's feelings about their working lives. "e;A powerful, original, indescribable and incredible book... Only an interviewer of genius, exploiting the tape recorder as hardly anyone else has done, could possibly have brought it forth."e; Lewis Mumford"e;A magnificent book... a work of art. To read it is to hear America talking."e; Boston Globe"e;Splendid... Important... Rich and fascinating... The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their ancedotes, adventures, and aspirations with us."e; Business Week"e;The talk in Working is good talk--earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience."e; Washington Post"e;Nothing could tell our children's children who and how and what we were the way Studs Terkel will. Is it possible the great American novelist is Terkel?"e; Murray Kempton