Hard times : an illustrated oral history of the Great Depression

Hard times An illustrated oral history of the Great Depression

Studs Terkel, 1912-2008

Book - 2012

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

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Subjects
Depressions > 1929 > Personal narratives.
Oral history.
United States > History > 1933-1945 > Sources.
United States > History > 1919-1933 > Sources.
United States > Biography.
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945.
Published
New York : New Press 2012.
Language
English
Main Author
Studs Terkel, 1912-2008 (-)
Edition
Abridged edition
Item Description
"This is an abridged edition of Hard Times. The original edition included an additional sixty interviews"--Title page verso.
Physical Description
xx, 441 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9781595587039
  • Foreword, January-February 1986
  • A Personal Memoir (and parenthetical comment)
  • Book One.
  • The March
  • Jim Sheridan
  • A. Everette McIntyre
  • Edward C. Schalk
  • The Song
  • E. Y. (Yip) Harburg
  • Hard Travelin'
  • Ed Paulsen
  • Pauline Kael
  • Frank Czerwonka
  • Kitty McCulloch
  • Dawn, Kitty's Daughter
  • Louis Banks
  • Peggy Terry and Her Mother, Mary Owsley
  • Kilo Konagamitsu
  • Cesar Chavez
  • Blackie Gold
  • The Big Money
  • William Benton
  • Arthur A. Robertson
  • Sidney J. Weinberg
  • John Hersch
  • Dr. David J. Rossman
  • God Bless' the Child
  • Daisy Singer
  • Robin Langston
  • Dynamite Garland
  • Slim Collier
  • Phyllis Lorimer
  • Bonnie Laboring Boy
  • Larry Van Dusen
  • Jose Yglesias
  • Hank Oettinger
  • E. D. Nixon
  • Gordon Baxter
  • Three Strikes
  • Bob Stinson The Sit-down
  • Mike Widman The Battle of Detroit, A Preface
  • Dr. Lewis Andreas Memorial Day, 1937
  • Book Two
  • High Life
  • Sally Rand
  • Tony Soma
  • Alec Wilder
  • Doc Graham
  • Sixteen Ton
  • Buddy Blankenship
  • Mary Owsley
  • Aaron Barkhan
  • The Farmer is the Man
  • Harry Terrell
  • Oscar Heline
  • Emil Loriks
  • Ruth Loriks, His Wife
  • Clyde T. Ellis
  • Editor and Publisher
  • Fred Sweet
  • W. D. (Don) Maxwell
  • Carey McWilliams
  • Book Three
  • Concerning the New Deal
  • Gardiner C. Means
  • Raymond Moley
  • C. B. (Beanie) Baldwin
  • James A. Farley
  • Burton K. Wheeler
  • David Kennedy
  • John Beecher
  • An Unreconstructed Populist
  • Congressman C. Wright Patman
  • Peroration
  • Colonel Hamilton Fish
  • Scarlet Banners and Novenas
  • William L. Patterson
  • Max Schachtman
  • Dorothy Day
  • Fred Thompson
  • Saul Alinsky
  • The Doctor, Huey and Mr. Smith
  • George Murray
  • Senator Russell Long
  • Evelyn Finn
  • Gerald L. K. Smith
  • The Gentleman from Kansas
  • Alf M. Landon
  • Book Four
  • Merely Passing Through
  • Edward Burgess
  • Billy Green
  • Scoop Lankford
  • A Cable
  • Myrna Loy
  • Book Five
  • The Final and Liverly Arts
  • Hiram (Chub) Sherman
  • Neil Schaffner
  • Paul Draper
  • Knud Andersen
  • Little Brother Montgomery and Red Saunders
  • Jack Kirkland
  • Public Servant-The City
  • Elizabeth Wood
  • Mick Shufro
  • Elsa Ponselle
  • Sergeant Vincent Murray
  • Earl B. Dickerson
  • Evictions, Arrests and Other Running Sores
  • Mrs. Willye Jeffries
  • Harry Hartman
  • Max R. Naiman
  • Honor and Humiliation
  • Eileen Barth
  • Ward James
  • Howard Worthington
  • Horace Cayton
  • W. L. Gleason
  • Strive and Succeed
  • Harry Norgard
  • General Robert E. Wood
  • A. A. Fraser
  • Tom Sutton
  • Emma Tiller
  • W. Clement Stone
  • Ray Wax
  • Epilogue
  • Reed
  • The Raft
  • Virginia Durr
  • A Touch of Rue
  • Photo Credits

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