Working：People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do

StudsTerkel(1912–2008)wasafreespirit,anoutspokenpopulist,aPulitzerPrize-winningauthor,aterribleham,andoneofthebest-lovedcharactersontheAmericanscene.BorninNewYorkin1912,helivedinChicagoforovereightdecades.Hisradioshowwascarriedonstationsthroughoutthecountry.HeistheauthorofRace:HowBlacksandWhitesThinkandFeelAbouttheAmericanObsession;DivisionStreet:America,ComingofAge:GrowingUpintheTwentiethCentury;TalkingtoMyself:AMemoirofMyTimes;“TheGoodWar”:AnOralHistoryofWorldWarII;Working:PeopleTalkAboutWhatTheyDoAllDayandHowTheyFeelAboutWhatTheyDo;TheStudsTerkelReader:MyAmericanCentury;AmericanDreams:LostandFound;TheStudsTerkelInterviews:FilmandTheater;HardTimes:AnOralHistoryoftheGreatDepression;WilltheCircleBeUnbroken?:ReflectionsonDeath,Rebirth,andHungerforaFaith;GiantsofJazz;HopeDiesLast:KeepingtheFaithinTroubledTimes;AndTheyAllSang:AdventuresofanEclecticDiscJockey;TouchandGo:AMemoir;P.S.:FurtherThoughtsfromaLifetimeofListening;andStudsTerkel’sChicago,allpublishedbyTheNewPress.HewasamemberoftheAcademyofArtsandLettersandarecipientofaPresidentialNationalHumanitiesMedal,theNationalBookFoundationMedalforDistinguishedContributiontoAmericanLetters,aGeorgePolkCareerAward,andtheNationalBookCriticsCircle2003IvanSandrofLifetimeAchievementAward.