A collage of impressions from soldiers and civilians who took part in WW II.

The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.

A sort of masterpiece about a life which itself is a sort of masterpiece.... A most remarkable book. Oliver Sacks, bestselling author of Awakenings. At age ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers us a memoir that capturing the spirit of the man himself is youthful, vivacious, and enormous fun. Terkel takes us back to his early childhood in 1920s Chicago, recalls his early experiences...

Recreates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and obscure Americans.

"Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It is a collective portrait of our times, woven from the voices of seventy very different people, the youngest of whom is seventy and the oldest ninety-nine. Together they give us an extraordinary panorama of American life and work throughout this century and underscore the ways in which the times have changed." "Coming of Age is also, in many ways, a sequel to Terkel's acclaimed Working...

For Coming of Age, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Peabody Award-winning radio host, himself an octogenarian, has interviewed several very different men and women ranging in age from 70 to 99. Some are powerful celebrities (Maggie Kuhn of the Grey Panthers, economist John Kenneth Galbraith); others are obscure people in small towns. Together they represent an extraordinary panorama of American life and work throughout this century and the ways...

"In recent years, race has emerged as the leading issue in American politics. The clock has been turned back on the progress of the 1960s, and once again hostility, resentment, and racial conflict threaten to divide the nation. How do ordinary Americans see these changes? How do attitudes towards race affect their daily lives, their relations to their fellow Americans, their images of themselves? Despite hundreds of articles, op-ed pieces, and TV...

A collection of eighty essays exploring the personal beliefs of a diverse assortment of contributors, both famous and unknown, who reflect on their faith, the evolution of their beliefs, and how they express them.