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Author Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.

Title Hard times : an oral history of the great depression / Studs Terkel.

Imprint New York : Pantheon Books, 1970.
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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  330.973 T272h 1970    ---  Lib Use Only
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  330.973 Ter    ---  Available
Description xiii, 462 pages ; 25 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
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Summary A re-creation of the America of the thirties, based on the reminiscences of a cross-section of people representing all walks of life, including several notable personalities.
Contents Book 1: The march ; The song ; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ; Hard Travelin' ; The big money ; Man and boy ; God bless' the child ; Bonnie laboring boy ; Three strikes -- Book 2: Old families ; Member of the chorus ; High life ; At the clinic ; Sixteen ton ; The farmer is the man ; Editor and publisher -- Book 3: Concerning the New Deal ; An unreconstructed populist ; Peroration ; Scarlet banners and novenas ; The doctor, Huey and Mr. Smith ; The circuit rider ; The gentleman from Kansas ; A view of the woods ; Campus life -- Book 4: Merely passing through ; Three o'clock in the morning ; A cable -- Book 5: The fine and lively arts ; Public servant -- the city ; Evictions, arrests and other running sores ; Honor and humiliation ; Strive and succeed -- Epilogue.
Subject United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Personal narratives.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
Depressions. (OCoLC)fst00890969
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Depressions, Economic.
Chronological Term 1918-1945
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Personal narratives.
ISBN 0713901829
9780713901825
0394427742
9780394427744
0394746910
9780394746913

 
    
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