Division Street America by Studs Terkel Signed First Edition 2nd Printing Vintage Hardcover Original Dust Jacket Sociology Journalism 1967

Division Street America by Studs Terkel Signed First Edition 2nd Printing Vintage Hardcover Original Dust Jacket Sociology Journalism 1967

<Condition is Very Good as Pictured> (normal wear, some markings, light edge-wear)

—Life stories, based on personal interviews, of some seventy selected residents of Chicago, Ill. intended to portray changes occurring in the U. S. A. during the past few decades.

-> This is one of those books that embody an idea so simple that no one ever tried it before. No one has ever attempted to see what typical Americans think and feel about their own lives and the way their country has changed in recent years. Here is a remarkable self-portrait from the most unexpected and most obvious of sources: the Americans.

Division Street: America is the first-person life story of some seventy people living in Chicago who constitute a veritable cross-section of the country. The person who captures these lives is Studs Terkel, whose remarkable interviews have become internationally famous because of his uncanny ability to get people to talk with astonishing frankness about them-selves, their past, the way they live now, their hopes for their children and for the future. Here, from Appalachian migrants to successful salesmen, from liberal policemen to John Birch taxi drivers, from the poorest Negroes to the richest socialites, we discover not any one minority, but the whole spectrum.

Through these seventy lives, we come to understand what has happened to our country during our own lifetime. Memories of country living still exist, while the city as we know it begins to disappear. Familiar neighborhoods are torn down, jobs are altered, our children enter a new and still undefined world. The lives which mirror this show us both the America that once was and the America that now is. Here is the United States itself, not a dry sociological study, but a vivid, funny, at times agonizing, always unbelievably believable mosaic of our country as we none of us knew it to be, but as it undeniably is.

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