A Pulitzer Prize winner interviews workers, from policemen to piano tuners: ';Magnificent... To read it is to hear America talking.' The Boston Globe A National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller Studs Terkel's classic oral history Workingis a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this book provides a ';brilliant' and enduring portrait of people's feelings about their working lives. This edition includes a new foreword by New York Times journalist Adam Cohen (Forbes). ';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 inWorkingis good talkearthy, passionate, honest, sometimes tender, sometimes crisp, juicy as reality, seasoned with experience.' The Washington Post
