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| Preface | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Note | |
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| The Dream | |
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| American Dreams: Lost and Found (1980) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vine Deloria, Native American author and teacher | |
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| Andy Johnson, hardscrabble Finnish immigrant | |
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| Wallace Rasmussen, Horatio Alger Award winner | |
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| Vernon Jarrett, African-American newspaperman | |
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| C. P. Ellis, former Klansman | |
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| Leonel I. Castillo, former director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service | |
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| Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (1970) | |
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| Introduction: A Personal Memoir (and Parenthetical Comment) | |
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| Ed Paulsen, freight-train rider | |
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| Arthur A. Robertson, mogul | |
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| Clifford Burke, hustler | |
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| Doc Graham, gangster | |
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| Oscar Heline, farmer | |
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| Jane Yoder, daughter of a WPA worker | |
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| Tom Yoder, Jane's son | |
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| Jerome Zerbe, society's photographer | |
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| Peggy Tevry and her mother, Mary Owsley, mountain people | |
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| We Still See Their Faces: Introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of The Grapes of Wrath | |
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| "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (1984) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Bob Rasmus, rifleman | |
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| Peggy Terry, "hillbilly" | |
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| E. B. (Sledgehammer) Sledge, Marine | |
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| Peter Ota, Nisei | |
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| Betty Basye Hutchinson, nurse | |
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| The City | |
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| Division Street: America (1967) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Florence Scala, neighborhood crusader | |
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| Dennis Hart, cabbie | |
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| Lucy Jefferson, migrant from Mississippi | |
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| Kid Pharaoh, con man | |
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| Tom Kearney, cop | |
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| Chester Kolar, next-door neighbor | |
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| George Malley (a.k.a. Henry Lorenz), blue-collar worker | |
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| Eva Barnes, landlady | |
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| Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1972) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Mike Lefevre, steelworker | |
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| Dolores Dante, waitress | |
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| Roberto Acuna, farm worker | |
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| Eric Nesterenko, pro hockey player | |
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| Phil Stallings, auto worker | |
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| Tom Patrick, fireman | |
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| The Divide | |
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| The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream (1988) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Caroll Nearmyer, family farmer | |
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| Rex Winship, trader | |
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| Sam Talbert, teamster | |
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| Larry Heinemann, Vietnam War veteran | |
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| Jean Gump, suburban grandmother | |
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| Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (1992) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Joseph Lattimore, African-American | |
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| Diane Romano, white mother of six | |
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| Lloyd King, mixed race | |
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| Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century By Those Who Have Lived It (1995) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Bessie Doenges, writer | |
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| Jack Culberg, CEO | |
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| Genora Johnson Dollinger, remembering the 1937 sit-down strike | |
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| Jacob Lawrence, artist | |
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| David Brewer, environmentalist | |