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Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Between 1938 and 1942 the Federal Writers' Project set out to create a first-person portrait of America by sending young writers-many of whom later became famous-around the country to interview people from all occupations and backgrounds. This book presents 80 of these diverse life histories, including the stories of a North Carolina patent-medicine pitchman, a retired Oregon prospector, a Bahamian midwife from Florida, a Key West smuggler, recent...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, an epic prank war between twelve- year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper of New York City.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A "remarkable collection" of insight and inspiration from 20 leaders and thinkers, including Elizabeth Warren, Howard Zinn, and Oliver Stone ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). As a kid, Noam Chomsky handed out the Daily Mirror at his uncle's newsstand on 72nd Street, inadvertently finding himself in a buzzing intellectual and political hub for European immigrants in New York. Iranian human rights Nobelist Shirin Ebadi and her husband signed their...
10) Voices of freedom: an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
Eyewitness accounts of three decades of civil rights history.
12) Into the rising sun: in their own words, World War II's Pacific veterans reveal the heart of combat
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"'A down-to-earth, inspiring book about the American promise fulfilled'--President Bill Clinton; 'Fascinating. Made me wish I had been born in the Bronx'--Barbara Walters; A touching and provocative collection of memories that evoke the history of one of America's most influential boroughs--the Bronx--through some of its many success stories. The vivid oral histories in Arlene Alda's Just Kids from the Bronx reveal what it was like to grow up in the...
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