Chicago by Studs Terkel
A Personal History of an American City
Through dozens of first-person interviews collected over many years, the book creates a polyphonic portrait of a great American city—its neighborhoods, industries, politics, racial tensions, and everyday people. Voices range from laborers and small-business owners to politicians, artists, and criminals, revealing the city’s grit, humor, contradictions, and resilience. The result is an oral history that privileges lived experience over summary, giving an immediate, ground-level sense of how the city’s past and present shape ordinary lives.
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- Published
- 1986
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- American
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- English
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