Talking To Myself: A Memoir of my Times

Author:   Studs Terkel
Publisher:   The New Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
ISBN:  

9781565843196


Pages:   346
Publication Date:   22 December 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Talking To Myself: A Memoir of my Times


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In Talking to Myself, Pulitzer Prizingwinning author Studs Terkel offers us an autobiography for our times-the stirring story of a man whose life has been so vivid that its telling mirrors the events of our century. From Mahalia Jackson to Bertrand Russell, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Frederico Fellini, Studs has met them all and captured their voices for us. With the addition of a marvelous new postscript, Talking to Myself is as enjoyable now as when it was first published-a work that is as unusual as it is compelling.

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Author:   Studs Terkel
Publisher:   The New Press
Imprint:   The New Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 20.90cm
Weight:   0.414kg
ISBN:  

9781565843196


ISBN 10:   1565843193
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   22 December 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part 1: The visit; dreamland; do you like Bruegel?; the greatest story ever told; I ring the bell; the dream-possessed; the man who shook the hand of the man shook the hand of Napoleon; a free and fair election; a bad citizen; a good citizen. Part 2: The native; meeting the chief; singing bird. Part 3: Boy seated; the architect; the Scotsman; the midwife. Part 4: The whole world is watching; a study in clout; a brief vacation; glasses; the impertinent question; a farce; a seminar. Part 5: ""La Divina Claudia""; Mahalia; oh, freedom; Big Bill; northern lights. Afterword: the ultimate fantasy - my first inaugural address; a backward glance, 1995.

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Studs Terkel (1912–2008) was an award-winning author and radio broadcaster. He is the author of Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession; Division Street: America, Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century; Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times; ""The Good War"": An Oral History of World War II; Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do; The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century; American Dreams: Lost and Found; The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater; Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression; Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith; Giants of Jazz; Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times; And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey; Touch and Go: A Memoir; P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening; and Studs Terkel's Chicago, all published by The New Press. He was a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of a Presidential National Humanities Medal, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a George Polk Career Award, and the National Book Critics Circle 2003 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.

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