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American Dreams: Lost and Found
Terkel, Studs
Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York, USAYear Published: 1981 Pages: 515pp ISBN: 0-345-29736-9 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX7092 Interviews with 100 Americans who relate their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences. Abstract: In this work, Studs Terkel interviews a hundred Americans and discovers their dreams, disappointments, aspirations and experiences. He covers a vast variety of people in different fields of life, including a former beauty queen, a politician, a fruit picker, a former Klu Klux Klan member, an attorney, an actor and many more. The interviews are written in the form of short narratives and are quite varied and interesting. The people interviewed range from well known public figures, like Arnold Shwarzenegger, to ordinary, unknown members of society, like a Manhattan bellhop. [Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary] Table of Contents Introduction Prologue Part I: Onward and Upward 1. The Boss 2. The Hired Gun, The Travellin' Lady, The Wanderin' Kid, and The Indian 3. Fantasia 4. True Believer Part II: O Canaan Land 5. Arriving: Then 6. Generations: First and Second 7. Arriving: Now 8. Going and Coming Part III: In the Country 9. Stirrings in the Field 10. Them 11. Girl of the Golden West 12. Sowing on the Mountain 13. The Diploma Part IV: In the City 14. Neighbourhood Boy 15. Neighbourhood Familiar 16. Alone 17. Stirrings in the Neighbourhood Part V: Dreams: Public and Private 18. Visions 19. Winning 20. Gathering and Letting Go 21. Mother and Son Part VI: They Also Serve… 22. Politics 23. John and Karl 24. A Homily on Duty 25. Editor and Publisher Part VII: The Young: Spectators and Gladiators 26. The Girl Next-Door 27. The Graduates 28. The Girl Across the Tracks 29. Family Portraits 30. A Certain Smile 31. Touching Thirty Epilogues: The Woods The Train Subject Headings |