Hard Times An Oral History of the Great Depression
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
16.03.2027
Abbildungen
Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Verlag
Ingram Publishers ServicesSeitenzahl
608
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/3,1 cm
Gewicht
696 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798893851793
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Working and "The Good War", the book The New York Times calls " an invaluable record" of people's lives during the Great Depression, reissued in a beautiful new edition
"Hard Times doesn't 'render' the time of the Depression or historicize about it--it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories." --Arthur Miller Hard Times captures the Great Depression not through the cold lens of statistics, but through the raw, unfiltered voices of those who actually lived it. Farmers who lost their land. Strikers who risked everything. Businessmen who watched fortunes evaporate overnight. Speakeasy operators. Sharecroppers. Ordinary Americans who refused to break.First published in 1970, Studs Terkel's landmark work weaves together hundreds of firsthand accounts to create something no history textbook can replicate: the texture of a decade. You hear the exhaustion in a laid-off worker's words. The quiet dignity of a family making do with less. The spark of resistance that kept an entire generation moving forward.
Praised by the Saturday Review as "a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit," Hard Times is as much about resilience as it is about ruin. Terkel gives equal weight to voices across the socioeconomic spectrum--from the powerful to the forgotten--painting a multidimensional portrait of America at its most vulnerable, and most tenacious.
Essential reading for history enthusiasts and anyone new to Terkel's extraordinary body of work, Hard Times is a book that refuses to let the past go silent. At a time when the gap between the wealthy and the struggling has never been wider, Terkel's voices from the 1930s feel less like history and more like a mirror. The faces change. The inequality doesn't. Hard Times is not just a record of the past--it's a call to see the present clearly, and to demand better.
Some stories need to be told in the voices of those who lived them. This is one of them.
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