Praise for Working: "Magnificent . . . To read it is to hear America talking."
–The Boston Globe "Splendid . . . Important . . . Rich and fascinating . . . The people we meet are not digits in a poll but real people with real names who share their anecdotes, adventures, and aspirations with us."
–Business Week
"The talk in
Working is good talk–earthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience."
–The Washington Post "Reading these stories, I started to consider my own place in the world, and understand how connected we are to one another. [
Working] helped inform the choices I made in my own work."
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President Barack Obama "I cannot find words to express sufficiently my admiration for Studs Terkel's
Working. . . . Only an interviewer of genius, exploiting the tape recorder as hardly anyone else has done, could possibly have brought it forth."
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Lewis Mumford