My American Century

Good stuff. The only other book of his I'd read was Working, plus listening to some of his interviews here and there. This one is his “best of,” with interviews from all his books plus the introductions to each book. The net result is a higher percentage of direct Terkel writing than usual, which is okay by me. It really is a decent social-historical glance at the century, and he's so good at getting good details out of people.