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...STUDS TERKEL 589 pages. Pantheon...
...like your job?" is the basic question that Studs Terkel asks in his much ballyhooed collection of conversations with 135 Americans. The not very surprising answer: "I don't." A virtuoso of the unobtrusive mike, Terkel talked with elevator operators and company presidents, yacht salesmen and bricklayers, firemen and middle-managers, foremen and farmers and hair stylists-with those few who thought they were in control, with those many more who knew they were not. The excellence of the interviews is hard to convey in brief, since it is a stream-of-consciousness flow that gives them their quality...
...Terkel encounters the usual quota of people who say "I am a machine," "A monkey could do what I could," "I'm an object." Or more poignant because less forensic, the retired truck driver, age 66: "Most of my friends died on the verge of getting pensions. Because the truck driver at 40, his kidneys are beginning to kick up or he's got his whole prostate gland giving him a bad time." There are also moments of revelation. From a black washroom attendant in Chicago...
NONFICTION 1-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (1) 2-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (2) 3-Times to Remember, Kennedy (3) 4-Management, Drucker (4) 5-Working, Terkel (9) 6-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (5) 7-Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, Brodie 8-Alistair Cooke's America, Cooke (8) 9-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read 10-The Secret Life of Plants, Tompkins & Bird...
...Monetary Crisis, Browne (2) 3-Times to Remember, Kennedy (3) 4-Management, Drucker (4) 5-How to Be Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (5) 6-KGB, Barren (9) 7-The Secret Life of Plants,Tompkins & Bird (7) 8-Alistair Cooke 's America,Cooke (8) 9-Working, Terkel (6) 10-Creative Divorce, Krantzler