Studs Terkel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Adult - American Classics
Adult - Author Birthday's List
Adult - Banned Books
Adult - California Fiction
Adult - Author Birthday's List
Adult - Banned Books
Adult - California Fiction
Description
The story of a farm family's Depression-era journey from the Dustbowl of Oklahoma to the California migrant labor camps in search of a better life.
2) Good Fight
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The fight for the freedom of Loyalist Spain during the 1936-39 civil war pitted an International Brigade of 35,000 civilian soldiers from more than 50 nations against the well-equipped insurgents of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Aid to Franco came via Italian fighter planes from Mussolini and from the Nazi Condor Legion of Junker bombers sent by Hitler, who wanted to try out his new weaponry in anticipation of the larger war to come. Spurred by...
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
xxii, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A selection of forty previously unpublished interviews with musicians from the past half-century includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's discussions with such figures as Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Louis Armstrong.