Coming of Age

by Terkel, Studs

• ISBN13: 9781595581723
• ISBN10: 1595581723
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

Bestselling oral history of what it was like to age in the 20th century - as told by those who lived through almost all of it - published to coincide with Terkel's 95th birthday year. in many ways a sequel to Studs' most famous book, Working, COMING OF AGE weaves the voices of 74 very different people - from an angry farmer to a resigned bank president; and those who were at the vanguard of their movements, be they trade unionists, gay rights activists or artists. Indispensable oral history from the undisputed king of the genre.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Apologies	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Prologue: Whose Garden Was This? David Brower	p. 1
The Big Boys
Jack Culberg	p. 9
Wallace Rasmussen	p. 15
Paul Miller	p. 20
The Money Tree
Estelle Strongin	p. 25
Katherine "Kit" Tremaine	p. 30
W.H. "Ping" Ferry	p. 37
The Learning Tree
Rochelle Lee	p. 43
Timuel Black	p. 48
Aki Kurose	p. 55
Gertie Fox	p. 64
The Firm
Charles A. Bane	p. 71
Judith Vladeck	p. 76
Ernest Goodman	p. 82
Hold the Fort
Victor Reuther	p. 89
Genora Johnson Dollinger	p. 97
Charles Hayes	p. 105
Marvin Miller	p. 110
Working the Land
Jessie de la Cruz	p. 119
Merle Hansen	p. 124
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Russell Knapp	p. 131
Hazel Wolf	p. 136
The Muse
Jacob Lawrence	p. 145
Katherine Kuh	p. 150
Katherine Dunham	p. 155
Uta Hagen	p. 161
Milt Hinton	p. 168
On the Air
Norman Corwin	p. 177
Robert St. John	p. 182
Charlie Andrews	p. 188
The Pitch
Charles A. Kasher	p. 195
Danny Newman	p. 201
God
Rev. William Augustus Johnson	p. 209
Betty McCollister	p. 216
Richard McSorley, S.J.	p. 221
Virginia Bowers	p. 227
Community
Joe Begley	p. 233
Wallace and Juanita Nelson	p. 240
Raymond Koch	p. 248
Bresci Thompson	p. 253
Guadalupe Reyes	p. 259
Health
Quentin Young, M.D.	p. 265
Florence Wald, R.N.	p. 274
Esther Thompson	p. 279
Ted Cox	p. 284
The "Others"
Olga Companioni	p. 291
Harry Hay	p. 297
Valerie Taylor	p. 309
Public Servant
Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez	p. 317
Sophie Masloff	p. 325
John Kenneth Galbraith	p. 329
Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz	p. 334
Leon "Len" Despres	p. 341
Law and Order
Charles Lenz	p. 347
Erskine Moore	p. 353
Alice McGrath	p. 361
Eldred (Bob Schneider)	p. 368
Whistle Blower
Admiral Gene LaRocque	p. 377
Philip Clay Roettinger	p. 384
Stetson Kennedy	p. 391
John Gofman, M. D.	p. 401
Letters to the Editor
Henry "Hank" Oettinger	p. 413
Legacy
Sophie Mumford	p. 423
Margot Jacoby	p. 430
Carolyn Peery	p. 438
Helen Nearing	p. 446
At the Home
Millie Beck	p. 451
Frances Freeborn Pauley	p. 456
Bessie Doenges	p. 462
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