Division Street: America
by Terkel, Studs
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books / Random House. Good with no dust jacket. 1967. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full maroon cloth, silver and copper lettering on spine, blind-stamped design on cover, fore-edge deckle. Division Street: America, Studs Terkel's first book of oral history, established his reputation as America's foremost oral historian and as "one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and talk to the incredible people of this country" (in the words of Tom Wolfe). Viewing the inhabitants of a single city, Chicago, as a microcosm of the nation at large, Division Street: America chronicles the thoughts and feelings of some seventy people from widely varying backgrounds in terms of class, race, and personal history. From a mother and son who migrated from Appalachia to a Native American boilerman, from a streetwise ex-gang leader to a liberal police officer, from the poorest African Americans to the richest socialites, these unique and often intimate first-person accounts form a multifaceted collage that defies any simple stereotype of America. As Terkel himself put it: "I was on the prowl for a cross-section of urban thought, using no one method or technique
.I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature." Revealing aspects of people's lives that are normally invisible to most of us, Division Street: America is a fascinating survey of a city, and a society, at a pivotal moment of the twentieth century.. Ex library with the usual markings including pocket removed from rep, shadow from label removed from spine, otherwise unmarked; tight and square. GOOD. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 381 pp .
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- Seller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 29497
- Title
- Division Street: America
- Author
- Terkel, Studs
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition. Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Literature, Journalism, Interviews, CHICAGO, Sociology, Studs Terkel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy & Social Sciences;
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Palatine, Illinois
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