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A landmark reissue of Studs Terkel's classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast"Remarkable. . . . Division Street astonishes, dismays, exhilarates."-The New York Times When New Press founder Andréeacute; Schiffrin first published Division Street in 1967, Studs Terkel's reputation as America's foremost oral historian was established overnight.Approaching Chicagoans as emblematic of the nation at large, Terkel set out with his tape recorder and spent a year talking to over seventy people about race, family, education, work, prospects for the future--all topics that remain deeply contentious today. Subjects included a Black woman who attended the 1963 March on Washington, a tool-and-die maker, a baker from Budapest, a closeted gay actor, and a successful but cynical ad man. As Tom Wolfe wrote, Studs was "one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and talk to the incredible people of this country."Most interviewees shared the hope for a good life for their children and the wish for a less divided and more just America, but the real Chicago street referenced in the title takes on a metaphorical meaning as a symbol of the acute social divides of the 1960s--and highlights the continued relevance of Terkel's work in our polarized times.Now, over fifty years later, Melissa Harris and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mary Schmich have created the remarkable Division Street Revisited podcast, coming in January 2025, in which they have found and interviewed descendants of Terkel's original subjects in seven rich episodes. Schmich's foreword to the reissue and the extraordinary podcast--along with the new edition of Division Street--together demonstrate Studs Terkel's prescience and the enduring importance of his work.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781620979136
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 416
  • Udgivet:
  • 5. november 2024
  • Størrelse:
  • 140x24x216 mm.
  • 2-3 uger.
  • 22. november 2024
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A landmark reissue of Studs Terkel's classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast"Remarkable. . . . Division Street astonishes, dismays, exhilarates."-The New York Times When New Press founder Andréeacute; Schiffrin first published Division Street in 1967, Studs Terkel's reputation as America's foremost oral historian was established overnight.Approaching Chicagoans as emblematic of the nation at large, Terkel set out with his tape recorder and spent a year talking to over seventy people about race, family, education, work, prospects for the future--all topics that remain deeply contentious today. Subjects included a Black woman who attended the 1963 March on Washington, a tool-and-die maker, a baker from Budapest, a closeted gay actor, and a successful but cynical ad man. As Tom Wolfe wrote, Studs was "one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and talk to the incredible people of this country."Most interviewees shared the hope for a good life for their children and the wish for a less divided and more just America, but the real Chicago street referenced in the title takes on a metaphorical meaning as a symbol of the acute social divides of the 1960s--and highlights the continued relevance of Terkel's work in our polarized times.Now, over fifty years later, Melissa Harris and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mary Schmich have created the remarkable Division Street Revisited podcast, coming in January 2025, in which they have found and interviewed descendants of Terkel's original subjects in seven rich episodes. Schmich's foreword to the reissue and the extraordinary podcast--along with the new edition of Division Street--together demonstrate Studs Terkel's prescience and the enduring importance of his work.

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