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My American Century, August 1997 Born in 1912, Studs Terkel has witnessed the 20th century firsthand, commenting the entire way. For more than 30 years, millions of Americans have been moved by Terkel's oral histories, and in My American Century, he ma, My American Century
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  • My American Century
  • Written by author Studs Terkel
  • Published by New Pr, 1997/08/01
  • August 1997 Born in 1912, Studs Terkel has witnessed the 20th century firsthand, commenting the entire way. For more than 30 years, millions of Americans have been moved by Terkel's oral histories, and in My American Century, he ma
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Foreword
Introduction 3
Note 19
American Dreams: Lost and Found (1980)
Vine Deloria, Native American author and teacher 34
Andy Johnson, hardscrabble Finnish immigrant 38
Wallace Rasmussen, Horatio Alger Award winner 42
Vernon Jarrett, African-American newspaperman 49
C. P. Ellis, former Klansman 62
Leonel I. Castillo, former director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service 77
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970)
Introduction: A Personal Memoir (and Parenthetical Comment) 83
Ed Paulsen, freight-train rider 91
Arthur A. Robertson, mogul 99
Clifford Burke, hustler 105
Doc Graham, gangster 107
Oscar Heline, farmer 120
Jane Yoder, daughter of a WPA worker 126
Tom Yoder, Jane's son 130
Jerome Zerbe, society's photographer 130
Peggy Terry and her mother, Mary Owsley, mountain people 137
We Still See Their Faces: Introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of The Grapes of Wrath 147
"The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984)
Bob Rasmus, rifleman 177
Peggy Terry, "hillbilly" 189
E. B. (Sledgehammer) Sledge, Marine 196
Peter Ota, Nisei 205
Betty Basye Hutchinson, nurse 211
Division Street: America (1967)
Florence Scala, neighborhood crusader 226
Dennis Hart, cabbie 236
Lucy Jefferson, migrant from Mississippi 244
Kid Pharaoh, con man 252
Tom Kearney, cop 262
Chester Kolar, next-door neighbor 272
George Malley (a.k.a. Henry Lorenz), blue-collar worker 273
Eva Barnes, landlady 282
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1972)
Mike Lefevre, steelworker 319
Dolores Dante, waitress 329
Roberto Acuna, farm worker 336
Eric Nesterenko, pro hockey player 346
Phil Stallings, auto worker 354
Tom Patrick, fireman 360
The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream (1988)
Caroll Nearmyer, family farmer 393
Rex Winship, trader 400
Sam Talbert, teamster 410
Larry Heinemann, Vietnam War veteran 416
Jean Gump, suburban grandmother 421
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (1992)
Joseph Lattimore, African-American 450
Diane Romano, white mother of six 459
Lloyd King, mixed race 467
Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century By Those Who Have Lived It (1995)
Bessie Doenges, writer 495
Jack Culberg, CEO 504
Genora Johnson Dollinger, remembering the 1937 sit-down strike 511
Jacob Lawrence, artist 521
David Brower, environmentalist 526


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