Books
September, 1997
Uncommon ConversationsIn this dark age of celebrity soundbites, Studs Terkel is a journalistic Diogenes. He has given voice to the rarely heard working men and women of America in eight books of remarkable interviews. For his latest, My American Century (New Press), he selects 46 unsung people to summarize his life's work in a sort of anthology. Excerpted from classics such as Division Street, Hard Times, Race, Working and Coming of Age, these interviews reveal the 85-year-old Terkel as our keen...
