Title & Author:

Coming of age : the story of our century by those who've lived it / [compiled and edited by] Studs Terkel.

Publication:

New York : The New Press, [1995]
New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [date of distribution not identified]
©1995

Description:

xxvi, 468 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Chiefly interviews.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: Whose Garden Was This? / David Brower -- 1. The Big Boys. Jack Culberg. Wallace Rasmussen. Paul Miller -- 2. The Money Tree. Estelle Strongin. Katherine "Kit" Tremaine. W.H. "Ping" Ferry -- 3. The Learning Tree. Rochelle Lee. Timuel Black. Aki Kurose. Gertie Fox -- 4. The Firm. Charles A. Bane. Judith Vladeck. Ernest Goodman -- 5. Hold the Fort. Victor Reuther. Genora Johnson Dollinger. Charles Hayes. Marvin Miller -- 6. Working the Land. Jessie de la Cruz. Merle Hansen -- 7. Songs My Mother Taught Me. Russell Knapp. Hazel Wolf -- 8. The Muse. Jacob Lawrence. Katherine Kuh. Katherine Dunham. Uta Hagen. Milt Hinton -- 9. On the Air. Norman Corwin. Robert St. John. Charlie Andrews -- 10. The Pitch. Charles A. Kasher. Danny Newman -- 11. God. Rev. William Augustus Johnson. Betty McCollister. Richard McSorley, S.J. Virginia Bowers -- 12. Community. Joe Begley. Wallace and Juanita Nelson. Raymond Koch. Bresci Thompson. Guadalupe Reyes -- 13. Health. Quentin Young, M.D.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It is a collective portrait of our times, woven from the voices of seventy very different people, the youngest of whom is seventy and the oldest ninety-nine. Together they give us an extraordinary panorama of American life and work throughout this century and underscore the ways in which the times have changed.
Coming of Age is also, in many ways, a sequel to Terkel's acclaimed Working (1974), for it traces the extraordinary ways our working lives have changed in the past few decades - often beyond recognition. We meet politicians and preachers, advertising men and hucksters. Here is the partner in a large law firm, suing the colleagues who have forced him out; here, too, is the carpenter, accepting as inevitable the replacement of his skilled tasks by machine. But this is not a group of disgruntled Luddites; most accept - indeed welcome - the new technologies, yet they all deplore the degree to which human contact has declined and how traditional hopes and aspirations have been superseded by the often ruthless demands of the modern corporation.

ISBN:

1565842847
9781565842847

Subject:

Older people United States Interviews.
Older people United States Attitudes.
Social participation United States Case studies.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age United States Case studies.
Personnes âgées États-Unis Entretiens.
Personnes âgées États-Unis Attitudes.
Participation sociale États-Unis Études de cas.
Actualisation de soi chez la personne âgée États-Unis Études de cas.
Older people
Older people Attitudes
Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age
Social participation
Sociale geschiedenis.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age Case studies.
Elderly United States Attitudes.
Self realization United States Case studies.
United States History 20th century Personal narratives.
États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Récits personnels.
United States

Form/genre:

Interview
Personal Narrative
Case studies.
interviews.
History
Interviews
Personal narratives
Books.
Récits personnels.

Added entries:

Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008, compiler, editor, writer of added commentary.
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008, interviewer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 126466
Call No.: ID HQ1064.U5.T4; ID:97-B1082
Status: Available