Studs Terkel | Biography & Memoir

The Good War by Studs Terkel

Name: The Good War by Studs Terkel
Brand: Fehmerling Books
SKU: 0345325680
Price: 10.00 USD
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ISBN: 0345325680

The Good War by Studs Terkel

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Book Specifications

Format: Mass market paperback
Condition: Acceptable
Publisher: Ballantine (1985)
Length: 591 pages
Genre: Biography & Memoir
ISBN: 0345325680

Condition Note: Acceptable Reading Copy: Complete and fully readable text. Features water rippling/staining to outer page margins.

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Studs Terkel's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Oral History Masterpiece of World War II

First published in 1984 and awarded the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II is legendary author and oral historian Studs Terkel's monumental masterpiece of social history.

Rejecting sanitized historical mythologies, Terkel traveled across the United States to capture dozens of vivid, first-person accounts from ordinary people whose lives were transformed by the global conflict. The volume presents an extraordinary, panoramic tapestry of human voices: infantrymen, pilots, and medics on the front lines, factory workers and "Rosie the Riveters" on the home front, African American servicemen fighting racism alongside fascism, Japanese Americans held in internment camps, conscientious objectors, and civilian survivors. By contrasting heroic sacrifice with the raw trauma and societal shifts brought on by global conflict, Terkel creates a deeply human, unvarnished portrait of 20th-century history.

Why You'll Love This Book

A foundational work of modern journalism and oral history, "The Good War" remains an essential, emotionally resonant record of the American experience during World War II. Readers, historians, and book collectors who admire powerful first-person narratives and works by authors like Stephen E. Ambrose (Band of Brothers), Svetlana Alexievich (War's Unwomanly Face), Cornelius Ryan, David McCullough, and Ken Burns will find Terkel's volume indispensable.

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