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Also by Studs Terkel:

P.S., November 2008
Paperback
Touch And Go, November 2007
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The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century, May 2007
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Coming Of Age, May 2007
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And They All Sang, September 2005
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Hope Dies Last, December 2004
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?, December 2002
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Hard Times, November 2000
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Working, March 1997
Paperback
The Good War, January 1997
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HOPE DIES LAST
By: Studs Terkel

Keeping The Faith In Troubled Times

New Press
December 2004
On Sale: November 30, 2004
360 pages
ISBN: 156584937X
EAN: 9781565849372
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

The latest oral history from the unrivaled master of the genre.

Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "American century," Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today.

For Terkel, these interviews represent a change that has taken place in the last few years of uncertainty in America. From a doctor who teaches his young students compassion, to the now-retired brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay over Hiroshima, these interviews tell us much about the power of the American dream and the force of individuals who hope for a better world. Terkel's subjects express with grace and warmth their secret hopes and dreams, combining to tell an inspiring story of optimism and persistence that resonates with the eloquence of conviction.

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