%{search_type} search results

• Looking back (2:42)
• Outhouse economincs (6:17)
• Eric Satie for a Cologne thing (5:19)
• Looking up (4:13)
• The streets of Harlem (6:30)
• No place to go (5:18)
• The same smile, the same open eyes (4:52)
• Euclid (3:49)
• Stars (6:01)
• Jubilus (12:01).

• Looking back (2:42)
• Outhouse economics (6:17)
• Eric Satie for a Cologne thing (5:19)
• Looking up (4:13)
• The streets of Harlem (6:30)
• No place to go (5:18)
• The same smile, the same open eyes (4:52)
• Euclid (3:49)
• Stars (6:01)
• Jubilus (12:01).

• Early days. Plough-hand blues
• C.C. Rider ; Blues. Bill Bailey
• Willie Mae blues
• Experiences. This train ; Mule ridin' ; Talking blues
• Travelling. Key to the highway ; Black, brown and white
• Joe Turner blues No. 1.

• Preface, 1961
• Deep South journey, 1959
• Photographs / by Don Rutledge
• The aftermath, 1960
• Epilogue, 1976
• Beyond Otherness, 1979
• Afterword, 2011 / Robert Bonazzi

On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own-he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the single most important documentation of 20th-century American racism ever written. More than 50 years later, this newly edited edition-which is based on the original manuscript and includes a new design and added afterword-gives fresh life to what is still considered a "contemporary book." The story that earned respect from civil rights leaders and death threats from many others endures today as one of the great human-and humanitarian-documents of the era. In this new century, when terrorism is too often defined in terms of a single ethnic designation or religion, and the first black president of the United States is subject to hateful slurs, this record serves as a reminder that America has been blinded by fear and racial intolerance before. This is the story of a man who opened his eyes and helped an entire nation to do likewise.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Keys to the highway (3:17)
• What are the blues (3:19)
• Red River blues (Brownie's blues) (1:17)
• Crow Jane blues (2:41)
• Willie May (4:39)
• Daisy (6:44)
• Louise (2:05)
• Blues (6:37)
• Talk on the blues (1:24)
• Talk on the spirituals (0:34)
• Beautiful city (2:36)
• I'm gonna tell God how you treat me (4:13)
• Hush, somebody is calling me (4:20)
• When the saints go marching in (3:41)

• Keys to the highway (3:17)
• What are the blues (3:19)
• Red River blues (Brownie's blues) (1:17)
• Crow Jane blues (2:41)
• Willie May (4:39)
• Daisy (6:44)
• Louise (2:05)
• Blues (6:37)
• Talk on the blues (1:24)
• Talk on the spirituals (0:34)
• Beautiful city (2:36)
• I'm gonna tell God how you treat me (4:13)
• Hush, somebody is calling me (4:20)
• When the saints go marching in (3:41).

• Audio recording : Studs Terkel interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist (2006)
• Gerald Williams, Suellen Rocca & Art Green
• Edra Soto & Fatimah Asghar
• Dominick Di Meo and the Monster Roster

On September 29, 2018, before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago, international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted his first US Marathon interview session as part of Art Design Chicago, a yearlong celebration of Chicago's art and design legacy initiated by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Obrist, who has undertaken a life-long project of interviewing cultural figures, spoke with more than twenty of Chicago's most innovative and influential artists, designers, architects, writers, and other creatives. In their interviews, this diverse group of creatives provided insights into their artistic processes, influences, and ideas about and hopes for their shared city of Chicago. Among the participants were social-practice artist/developer Theaster Gates, architect Jeanne Gang, writer Eve Ewing, Hairy Who artists Art Green and Suellen Rocca, performance/installation artist Shani Crowe, and the city's cultural historian Tim Samuelson. Creative Chicago: An Interview Marathon serves as documentation for this event, including edited transcripts of the interviews, biographies of the participants, photos of the event, and images of the artists' work.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Three free improvisations with harp, voice, violin and trombone. Dog-gone cat act / Anne LeBaron. Euphorbia ; A little left of center / Candace Natvig, Jon English, Anne LeBaron.

• Riffs and improvisations - an interview with Studs Terkel
• it's not the song, it's the singing - panel discussion on oral history
• oral history as poetry, Dennis Tedlock
• movement without aim
• a surmisable variety - interdisciplinary and oral history
• can anyone over thirty be trusted? A friendly critique of oral history
• listen to their voices - two case studies in the interpretation of oral history interviews
• private memories and public presentation - the art of oral history.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

What is it that oral historians do? Prior to the publication of "Envelopes of Sound" oral history was regarded as an archival practice and interviews were considered the repositories of data. "Envelopes" shows that the interview is a series of dialectical relationships embedded in language, social practice, and historical imagination. It calls upon oral historians to begin to step back, to think seriously about what it is they do, and to ask what kind of documentation it is that they produce and how they can make it better. This volume merges theory and method through the analysis of the basic structure of the interview. It corporates new thinking on the nature of narrative and conversation, and it covers new ground in examining fieldwork in a number of disciplines. While strongly theoretical, it also has direct application in conducting oral history interviews. It moves from relatively easy and simple considerations to increasingly complex issues. "Envelopes of Sound" can be used by a variety of students in disciplines ranging from history and sociology to anthropology and contemporary literature, and it can be used in a variety of ways to raise issues on a number of theoretical levels.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Examines the need to protect freedom of the press and investigative journalism in the United States when newspapers and television stations are owned and influenced by large corporations hostile to media exposure. Examines case studies of investigative journalists who have been dismissed or forced to resign because of "too aggressive" journalistic practices, and cases of censorship mandated by television and print media management.

• [Interviews with] Pete Seeger
• Dorothy Parker
• Alan Lomax
• Mortimer Adler
• James Baldwin
• Gore Vidal
• Aaron Copland
• Mahalia Jackson
• Tennessee Williams
• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• R. Buckminster Fuller
• Margaret Mead
• Woody Allen
• Zero Mostel
• Mel Brooks
• Toni Morrison --John Henry Faulk
• Andres Segovia
• Daniel Ellsberg
• Margot Fonteyn
• Norman Maclean --

• Wole Soyinka
• Maya Angelou
• Barry Lopez
• Jacob Bronowski --Simone de Beauvoir
• Kenneth Tynan
• Betrand Russell
• Nadine Gordimer
• Leonard Bernstein
• Garry Wills
• John Cage
• Eudora Welty (with Jane Reid Petty)
• John Kenneth Galbraith
• Oliver Sacks
• Arthur Miller
• Laurie Anderson
• Bob Woodward
• David Hockney
• Betty Carter.

Terkel has hosted a daily Chicago radio show since the 1950s. This collection contains 40 of his most fascinating interviews with such personalities as Woody Allen, Tennessee Williams, Bob Woodward, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and many others.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

A documentary which presents interviews with eleven men and women who volunteered to serve in the American Abraham Lincoln Brigade that fought Franco and the Fascists during the Spanish civil war in the late 1930s. Includes archival film clips and photographs and period newspaper articles and songs.

• BOOK ONE: A Sunday morning
• A chance encounter
• Tales of the Pacific
• The good Reuben James
• Rosie
• Neighboring boys
• Reflections on machismo
• BOOK TWO: High rank
• The bombers and the bombed
• Growing up: Here and there
• D-Day and all that
• Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
• BOOK THREE: Sudden money
• The big Panjandrum
• Flying high
• Up front with Pen, Camera, and Mike
• BOOK FOUR: Crime and punishment
• A turning point
• Chilly winds
• Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
• Remembrance of things past

"The Good War", for which Studs Terkel won the Pulitzer Prize, is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Terkel as interviewer. As always, his subjects are open and unrelenting in their analyses of themselves and their experiences, producing what People magazine has called "a splendid epic history of World War II." With this volume Terkel expanded his scope to the global and the historical, and the result is a masterpiece of oral history.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• March
• Song
• Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band
• Hard travelin'
• Big Boy
• Man and boy
• God bless' the child
• Bonnie laboring boy
• Three strikes
• Old families
• Member of the chorus
• High life
• At the clinic
• Sixteen ton
• Farmer is the man
• Editor and publisher
• Concerning the new deal
• An unreconstructed populist
• Peroration
• Scarlet banners and novenas
• Doctor Huey and Mr. Smith
• Circuit rider
• Gentleman from kansas
• View of the woods
• Campus life
• Merely passing through
• Three o'clock in the morning
• Fine and lively arts
• Public servant _ the city
• Evictions arrests and other running sores
• Honor and humiliation
• Strive and succeed.

Receates the character and atmosphere of this dramatic era in a collage of recollections by both well-known and abscure Americans.

• pt. 1. Bridges goes to war, 1901-1939
• pt. 2. The war against Bridges, 1939-1955
• pt. 3. The war within, 1958-1977.

Sympathetic biographical overview of the life of the union organizer, Harry Bridges and his struggles to organize stevedores on West Coast American ports. Includes the unsuccessful attempt to deport him by industry moguls and politicians hostile to his labor movement and the current impact of mechanization and containerization on Stevedores and other dock laborers.

Skip Blumberg interviews six expert interviewers who present their thoughts on effective procedures for various types of interviews. The six persons interviewed include Mike Wallace and Barbara walters (television), Studs Terkel and Susan Stamberg (radio), Sean Grennan (a New York police detective) and Joel Kovel (a psychoanalyst).

Includes compositions, files, photographs, sound recordings including an interview with Studs Terkel, video recordings, newsclippings, and biographical information including material from Black Gay Men United. Also included is a video, "To Marlon with love," 1992, a tribute to Marlon Riggs which includes some clips of Black talking and singing one of his songs.

• The noose
• The firing squad
• The electric chair
• The gas chamber
• Lethal injection.

Some beg for forgiveness. Others claim innocence. At least three cheer for their favorite football teams. Death waits for us all, but only those sentenced to death know the day and the hour-and only they can be sure that their last words will be recorded for posterity. "Last Words of the Executed" presents an oral history of American capital punishment, as heard from the gallows, the chair, and the gurney. The product of seven years of extensive research by journalist Robert K. Elder, the book explores the cultural value of these final statements and asks what we can learn from them. We hear from both the famous-such as Nathan Hale, Joe Hill, Ted Bundy, and John Brown-and the forgotten, and their words give us unprecedented glimpses into their lives, their crimes, and the world they inhabited. Organized by era and method of execution, these final statements range from heartfelt to horrific. Some are calls for peace or cries against injustice; others are accepting, confessional, or consoling; still others are venomous, rage-fueled diatribes. Even the chills evoked by some of these last words are brought on in part by the shared humanity we can't ignore, their reminder that we all come to the same end, regardless of how we arrive there. "Last Words of the Executed" is not a political book. Rather, Elder simply asks readers to listen closely to these voices that echo history. The result is a riveting, moving testament from the darkest corners of society.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Children's plea for peace : [for narrator, chorus, and band] (1968) (12:07)
• Entertainment no. 1 : [for band] (1960) (18:01)
• Three octets : [for harpsichord, bassoon, 3 clarinets, English horn, percussion, and double bass]. House detective registers (1941) (3:26) ; Octet no. XXI (2:37) ; Remember me to youth (1947) (3:14)
• Fantasy for piano and wind ensemble (1974) (7:44)
• Jazz suite for brass quintet : (selected movements from the eight Brass quintets) [for horn, trombone, 2 trumpets, tuba] (1959-80). Trumpet prelude (no. 1) (2:47) ; Nice and easy does it (no. 8) (1:29) ; Jazz style (no. 8) (3:08) ; Loosely swinging (no. 4) (5:04) ; Jazz style (no. 6) (2:44).

• Introduction : beyond Black like me / by Robert Bonazzi
• Essays on racism
• Privacy of conscience
• The intrinsic other
• Profile of a racist
• On killers of the dream
• Requiem for a martyr
• Racist sins of Christians
• Malcolm X
• The violent decade
• From a time to be human
• Essays on spirituality
• Poulenc behind the mask
• Fraternal dialogue
• The little brothers
• The terrain of physical pain
• Final reflections.

The companion volume to the 50th-anniversary edition of Black Like Me, this book features John Howard Griffin's later writings on racism and spirituality. Conveying a progressive evolution in thinking, it further explores Griffin's ethical stand in the human rights struggle and nonviolent pursuit of equality-a view he shared with greats such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Merton. Enlightening and forthright, this record also focuses on Griffin's spiritual grounding in the Catholic monastic tradition, discussing the illuminating meditations on suffering and the author's own reflections on communication, justice, and dying.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Introduction : beyond Black like me / by Robert Bonazzi
• 1. Essays on racism
• Privacy of conscience
• The intrinsic Other
• Profile of a racist
• On Killers of the dream
• Requiem for A martyr
• Racist sins of Christians
• Malcolm X
• American racism in the sixties
• From A time to be human
• 2. Essays on spirituality
• Poulenc behind the mask
• Fraternal dialogue
• The little brothers
• The terrain of physical pain
• Final reflections.

The companion volume to the 50th-anniversary edition of Black Like Me, this book features John Howard Griffin's later writings on racism and spirituality. Conveying a progressive evolution in thinking, it further explores Griffin's ethical stand in the human rights struggle and nonviolent pursuit of equality-a view he shared with greats such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Merton. Enlightening and forthright, this record also focuses on Griffin's spiritual grounding in the Catholic monastic tradition, discussing the illuminating meditations on suffering and the author's own reflections on communication, justice, and dying.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Scaring the daylights out of Ma Perkins, 1974
• Dreamland, 1977
• James Baldwin, 1961
• "City of hands was born in mud and fire, " Financial times, 2005
• Janus : some portraits from memory
• Vince Garrity, 1974
• Frank Tuller, in memoriam, 1975
• Chester Kolar
• Stanley Cygan
• Who's got the ballot? : Red Kelly, 1975
• Ya gotta fight city hall, 1973
• If you were God
• Nighthawks, 1971
• A Christmas memory, 1973
• Uptown
• Suffer the little children, 1980
• A family bar, 1979
• Aaron Barkham
• A voice from a "Hey, you" neighborhood, 1973
• E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, 1978
• A gathering of survivors, 1971-72
• Born to live, 1961.

• Studs Terkel introducing Big Bill Broonzy and Pete Seeger
• The frog
• Alberta
• Cripple Creek ; Old Joe Clark ; Leather britches ; Sally Ann
• What is the blues? A "dressed-up" blues ; I wonder why (you count your time) ; A "Mississippi" blues ; Makin' my get a-way
• Elizabethan English: Little Margaret
• Blues all the same? In the evening when the sun goes down
• A "happy" blues (it's how you feel) ; Love you baby
• A lullaby: Hush a-bye ; Crawdad hole
• Worksong: John Henry ; Blues-poetry
• What is folk music
• Bach, on a banjo: Jesu, joy of man's desiring
• You got to walk that lonesome valley
• You got to stand in judgement
• The Midnight Special.

Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.

Describes Ralph Nader's activities as a consumer advocate and the results of those activities in the areas of government regulation and changes in products produced by U.S. industry. Presents various opinions regarding his activism.

In a major new work of more than forty never-before-published interviews, the Pulitzer Prize -- winning oral historian talks to masters of stage and screen.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Title Page; OTHER BOOKS BY STUDS TERKEL; Dedication; Preface; Foreword; Introduction; NOTE; Part I
• The Dream; American Dreams :
• Lost and Found (1980); INTRODUCTION; VINE DELORIA; ANDY JOHNSON; WALLACE RASMUSSEN; VERNON JARRETT; C.P. ELLIS; LEONEL I. CASTILLO; Hard Times:
• An Oral History of the great Depression (1970); INTRODUCTION: A PERSONAL MEMOIR; ED PAULSEN; ARTHUR A. ROBERTSON; CLIFFORD BURKE; DOC GRAHAM; OSCAR HELINE; JANE YODER; TOM YODER, JANE'S SON; JEROME ZERBE; PEGGY TERRY AND HER MOTHER, MARY OWSLEY; We Still See Their Faces.

• AN INTRODUCTION TO THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE GRAPES OF WRATH"The Good War":
• An Oral History of World War Two (1984); INTRODUCTION; ROBERT RASMUS; PEGGY TERRY; E.B. (SLEDGEHAMMER) SLEDGE; PETER OTA; BETTY BASYE HUTCHINSON; Part II
• The City; Division Street: (1967); INTRODUCTION; FLORENCE SCALA; DENNIS HART; LUCY JEFFERSON; KID PHARAOH; TOM KEARNEY; CHESTER KOLAR; GEORGE MALLEY (A.K.A. HENRY LORENZ); EVA BARNES; Working:
• People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What ... ; INTRODUCTION; MIKE LEFEVRE; DOLORES DANTE; ROBERTO ACUNA; ERIC NESTERENKO.

• PHIL STALLINGSTOM PATRICK; Part III
• The Divide; The Great Divide
• (1988); INTRODUCTION; CARROLL NEARMYER; REX WINSHIP; SAM TALBERT; LARRY HEINEMANN; JEAN GUMP; Race:
• How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (1992); INTRODUCTION; JOSEPH LATTIMORE; DIANE ROMANO; LLOYD KING; Coming of Age:
• The Story of Our Century By Those Who Have Lived It (1995); INTRODUCTION; BESSIE DOENGES, 93; JACK CULBERG, 79; GENORA JOHNSON DOLLINGER, 80; JACOB LAWRENCE, 76; DAVID BROWER, 79; Also by Studs Terkel; Copyright Page.

With a foreword by Robert Coles and a preface by Calvin Trillin. The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his wonderful original introductions to each book. Featuring selections from American Dreams, Coming of Age, Division Street, "The Good War, The Great Divide, Hard Times, Race, and Working, this "greatest hits" volume is a treasury of Terkel's most memorable subjects that will delight his many lifelong fans and provide a perfect introduction for those who have not yet experie.

Poetry readings by Thomas McGrath with tributes from Philip Levine and Studs Terkel.

At the age of 88, Studs Terkel has turned to the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In Studs Terkel's powerful new book, Will the Circle Be Unbroken? a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which we live. In talking about the ultimate and unknowable culmination of our lives, these people give voice to their deepest beliefs and hopes, reflecting on the lives they have led and what still lies before them. The result is a book that may well be Terkel's most popular, a universal and deeply moving account of death and religion. This is the first time Terkel addresses the whole realm of religious belief and of expectations of an afterlife, including reincarnation. Interviewing a fascinating variety of people, he is able to come up with an extraordinary range of experience and of belief, all of which prove far more complex than Terkel anticipated. In the tradition of his books Working and Coming of Age, Studs Terkel addresses an issue bound up with all of our lives, yet rarely discussed on its own terms. From a Hiroshima survivor to an AIDS caseworker, from a death-row parolee to a woman who emerged from a two-year coma, these interviewees find an eloquence and grace in dealing with a topic many of us have yet to discuss openly and freely. Terkel also interviews the vast array of people who confront death in their everyday lives, whether as policemen, firemen, emergency health workers, doctors, or nurses. Many of the most moving interviews deal with AIDS, and how the disease has devastated whole communities and forced people to face death atthe young ages we associate with centuries past. In a stunning capstone to his extraordinary career, Terkel introduces to us the variety of our reactions to life's ultimate experience.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Preface 1. Who built the pyramids?
• Mike LeFevre [Steelworker]
• Preface 2. Who spreads the news?
• Billy Carpenter [Newsboy]
• Cliff Pickens [Newsboy]
• Terry Pickens [Newsboy]
• Preface 3. The mason
• Carl Murray Bates [Stonemason]
• bk. 1.
• Working the land
• Pierce Walker, farmer
• Roberto Acuna, farm worker
• Aunt Katherine Haynes, farm woman
• Joe and Susie Haynes, deep miner and his wife
• Rob Sanders, strip miner
• Hub Dillard, heavy equipment operator
• bk. 2.
• [pt. 1]. Communication
• Sharon Atkins, receptionist
• Frances Swenson, hotel switchboard operator
• Heather Lamb, telephone operator
• Jack Hunter, professor of communications
• [pt. 2]. A pecking order
• Terry Mason, airline stewardess
• Beryl Simpson, airline reservationist
• Jill Torrance, model
• Anne Bogan, executive secretary
• Roberta Victor, hook
• [pt. 3]. Did you ever hear the one about the farmer's daughter?
• Barbara Herrick, writer/producer
• [pt. 4]. The commercial
• John Fortune, copy chief
• Arny Freeman, actor
• Rip Torn, actor
• Eddie Jaffe, press agent
• Richard Mann, installment dealer
• Enid du Bois, telephone solicitor

• bk. 3.
• [pt. 1]. Cleaning up
• Nick Salerno, sanitation truck driver
• Roy Schmidt, garbage man
• Louis Hayward, washroom attendant
• Lincoln James, factory mechanic
• Maggie Holmes, domestic
• Eric Hoellen, janitor
• [pt. 2]. Watching
• Fritz Ritter, doorman
• Vincent Maher, policeman
• Renault Robinson, policeman
• Anthony Ruggiero, industrial investigator
• Jill Freedman, photographer
• Pauline Kael, film critic
• bk. 4. The demon lover
• [pt. 1]. The making
• Phil Stallings, spot-welder
• Jim Grayson, spot-welder
• Hobart Foote, utility man
• Ned Williams, stock chaser
• tom Brand, plant manager
• Wheeler Stanley, general foreman
• Gary Bryner, president, Lordstown Local, UAW
• [pt. 2]. The driving
• Booker Page, cabdriver
• Lucky Miller, cabdriver
• Will Robinson, bus driver
• Frank Decker, interstate trucker
• [pt. 3]. The parking
• Alfred Pommier, car hiker
• [pt. 4]. The selling
• Johnny Bosworth, car salesman
• bk. 5.
• [pt. 1]. Appearance
• Sam Mature, barber
• Edward and Hazel Zimmer, hair stylists
• Jean Stanley, cosmetics saleswoman
• Dr. Stephen Bartlett, dentist
• Doc Pritchard, hotel clerk
• Hots Michaels, bar pianist
• Teddy Grodowski, elevator starter
• Tim Devlin, janitor, ex-salesman
• [pt. 2]. Counting
• Nancy Rogers, bank teller
• Fred Roman, auditor
• [pt. 3]. Footwork
• Jack Spiegel, organizer
• Alice Washington, order filler, shoe factory
• John Fuller, mail carrier
• Conrad Swibel, gas meter reader
• Brett Hauser, supermarket box boy
• Babe Secoli, supermarket checker
• Thomas Rush, skycap
• Grace Clements, felter, luggage factory
• Delores Dante, waitress
• [pt. 4]. Just a housewife - Therese Carter
• Jesusita Novarro

• bk. 6.
• [pt. 1]. The quiet life
• Donna Murray, bookbinder
• Nino Guidici, pharmacist
• Eugene Russell, piano tuner
• [pt. 2]. Brokers
• Margaret Richards, realty broker
• James Carson, yacht broker
• David Reed Glover, stockbroker
• Ray Wax, stockbroker
• [pt. 3]. Bureaucracy
• Steve Carmichael, project coordinator
• Lilith Reynolds, government relations coordinator
• Diane Wilson, process clerk
• [pt. 4]. Organizer
• Bill Talcott
• bk. 7.
• [pt. 1]. The sporting life
• Eddie Arroyo, jockey
• Steve Hamilton, baseball player
• Blackie Mason, sports press agent
• Jeanne Douglas, tennis player
• Eric Nesterenko, hockey player
• George Allen, football coach
• [pt. 2]. In charge
• Ward Quaal, TV/radio executive
• Dave Bender, factory owner
• Ernest Bradshaw, audit department head, bank
• Peter Keeley, ex-boss
• Lois Keeley Novak, his daughter
• Larry Ross, ex-president of conglomerate; consultant
• [pt. 3]. Ma and Pa courage
• George and Irene Brewer
• [pt. 4]. Reflections on idleness and retirement
• Barbara Terwilliger, idleness
• Bill Norworth, retired railroad engineer
• Joe Zmuda, ex-shipping clerk

• bk. 8.
• [pt. 1]. The age of Charlie Blossom
• Charlie Blossom, copy boy
• Steven Simonyi-Gindele, publisher
• Tom McCoy, proofreader
• Ralph Werner, department store salesman
• Bud Freeman, jazz musician
• Ken Brown, executive
• Kay Stepkin, director of bakery cooperative
• Cathleen Moran, hospital aide
• [pt. 2]. Cradle to grave
• Ruth Lindstrom, baby nurse
• Rose Hoffman, public school teacher
• Pat Zimmerman, alternative school teacher
• Kitty Scanlan, occupational therapist
• Betsy DeLacy, patients' representative
• Carmelita Lester, practical nurse, old people's home
• Herbert Bach, memorial counselor
• Elmer Ruiz, gravedigger
• bk. 9.
• [pt. 1]. The quiz kid and the carpenter
• Bruce Fletcher, tree nursery attendant
• Nick Lindsay, carpenter/poet
• [pt. 2]. In search of a calling
• Nora Watson, editor
• Walter Lundquist, industrial designer
• Rebecca Sweeney, nun to naprapath
• [pt. 3]. Second chance
• Fred Ringley, ex-salesman; farmer
• Philip da Vinci, lawyer
• Sarah Houghton, librarian
• Mario Anichini, stone cutter
• [pt. 4]. Fathers and sons
• Glen Stribling, service station owner
• Dave Stribling, his son and partner
• Steve Dubi, steelworker
• Father Leonard Dubi, his son, a priest
• Jack Currier, teacher, adult education
• Harold Patrick, freight elevator operator
• Bob Patrick, policeman
• Tom Patrick, fireman.

"Men and women representing a variety of occupations, describe the daily routine of their jobs and express their grievances, aims, and dreams."-- Provided by publisher.

• All the livelong day : (I hear America Singing / Walt Whitman) ; music and additional lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
• Lovin' Al / music and lyrics by Micki Grant
• The mason / music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia
• Neat to be a newsboy / music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
• Nobody tells me how / lyrics by Susan Birkenhead ; music by Mary Rodgers
• Un Mejor Dia Vendra / lyrics by Graciela Daniele and Matt Landers ; music by James Taylor
• Just a housewife / music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia
• Millwork / music and lyrics by James Taylor
• If I could've been / music and lyrics by Micki Grant
• Joe / music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia
• It's an art / music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
• Brother Trucker / music and lyrics by James Taylor
• Fathers and sons / music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
• Cleanin' women / music and lyrics by Micki Grant
• Something to point to / music and lyrics by Craig Carnelia