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Hope you're all off to a happy weekend of reading and relaxing. Before you go, I'm looking for your thoughts on books and authors that celebrate those of us who work for a living. I imagine Studs Terkel would come to mind. ("A Studs Terkel Reader" was released earlier this summer; watch for his memoir, "Touch and Go," this fall.) Upton Sinclair exposed working conditions that helped create many a vegetarian, and possibly a union or two. More recently, "Then We Came to the End" by Joshua Ferris was well-received as a scathing look at life in a modern office. What else? |
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Posted by Leslie Snyder @ 9:46 AM Fri, Aug 31, 2007
David McCullough wrote some great histories that illustrate the individual and mass effort that goes into creating great things -- including the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal.
Beyond the monumental achievement these books convey, the stories of laborers killed in the trenches stick with you.
Check out: "The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge" and "The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914."
Posted by Michael Bartley @ 1:18 AM Fri, Dec 07, 2007
One of my favorite recent novels is Ron Carlson's Five Skies. Set in Idaho it is a powerful story of men, their work, and the land.