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...Hard Times, Terkel (8) 10. The New English Bible...
...Great Depression! In these troubled times, how could more words about those troubled times become a national bestseller? The answer is that Studs Terkel's omnifaceted study of the last major societal breakdown in the U.S. seems remarkably relevant to 1970. For those who despair of the system, there is the sobering view of what ensues when the system collapses. For those who cannot understand why the system inspires so much dissent, there is a harrowing display of America's ingrown inequities...
...celebrated Chicago radio journalist, Terkel has put the Depression back together from the fragmentary impressions and memories of more than 150 farmers, philanthropists, hobos, hoodlums, New Dealers and even a nude dancer whom he interviewed. Each one tells a story in a series of snippets that together miraculously re-create the age -at once petrified and alive-on paper. The views are often contradictory and thus all the more real. "We all had an understanding that it wasn't our fault. Nobody made us feel ashamed," recalls one poor white Southern girl. In another passage, a Chicago door...
...that corruption was so rampant that he could borrow the needed weapon from a cop on patrol. At farm foreclosure sales, friends would gather, bid 10? for every item, scare others out of bidding more, then give everything back to the farmer. And in his mother's hotel, Terkel, then in his teens, sensed that the Depression had set in for keeps when he noticed the increased wear on the cards and checkerboards available to guests sitting around the lobby...
...NONFICTION 1. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex, Reuben (2) 2. The Sensuous Woman, "J" (3) 3. Zelda, Milford (5) 4. Up the Organization, Townsend (1) 5. Human Sexual Inadequacy, Masters and Johnson (4) 6. The Wall Street Jungle, Ney 7. Hard Times, Terkel (8) 8. The American Heritage Dictionary (10) 9. Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser (6) 10. The New English Bible...