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Unlike Studs Terkel, who presents interviews with a single individual to explain an issue, Miller uses fragments of interviews from several people to explain a particular event. With a few exceptions, Miller avails himself only of interviews that are sympathetic to Johnson, that provide excuses for Johnson's gaffes. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Miller's presentation of the discrepancies in Johnson's claims of sympathy for Blacks and his early congressional voting record...
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell American Dreams: Lost and Found, Studs Terkel ∙ China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Lyndon, Merle Miller ∙ The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Mark Amory ∙ The Soul of the Wolf, Michael Fox Walter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald Steel
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell American Dreams: Lost and Found. Studs Terkel ∙ China Men. Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Island Sojourn, Elizabeth Arthur-Lyndon. Merle Miller ∙ The Soul of the Wolf. Michael Fox ∙ Walter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald Steel
...Terkel revels in giving his readers sudden insights from unexpected sources. An ageing actress who performed in the USO shows in Vietnam asks, "Who wants to die cool? Nobody cool ever changed the world." Or the bitter but successful Mexican businessman who says, "The American Dream, I see now, is governed not by education, opportunity and hard work, but by power and fear. The higher up in the organization you go, the more you have to lose. The dream is not losing." Terkel doesn't capitalize the "d" here as he does elsewhere--this clearly isn't his idea...
...classic tucked away in some country school," she says. "It's funny, poetry has a way of molding people. There's a buried beauty--(suddenly) Gray's 'Elegy' changed my life. Who knows who's buried, who could have been what." The poet is English, but the words animate Terkel's theme: "Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid/Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire." The dream that one nation can kindle the celestial fire dormant in any person is Terkel's American Dream. And for this woman, Studs Terkel, and the reader of his new book, the Dream survives...