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From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps-the largest oral history project in the nation's history-presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love.StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans and preserving them for future generations. In New York City and in mobile recording booths traveling the country-from small towns to big cities, at Native American reservations and an Army post-StoryCorps is collecting the memories of Americans from all ages, backgrounds, and walks of life. The project represents a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity, capturing for posterity the stories that define us and bind us together.In Listening Is an Act of Love, StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects some of the most remarkable stories from the already vast collection and arranges them thematically into a moving portrait of American life. The voices here connect us to real people and their lives-to their experiences of profound joy, sadness, courage and despair, to good times and hard times, to good deeds and misdeeds.To read this book is to be reminded of how rich and varied the American storybook truly is, how resistant to easy categorization or caricature. Above all, this book honors the gift each StoryCorps participant has made, from the raw material of his or her life, to the Americans who will come after. We are our history, individually and collectively, and Listening Is an Act of Love touchingly reminds us of this powerful truth.
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Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Social life and customs, American National characteristics, StoryCorps (Project), Anecdotes, Interviews, Oral history, Biography, History, National characteristics, american, United states, social life and customs, United states, history, 1945-, United states, history, anecdotes, United states, biographyEdition | Availability |
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Listening Is an Act of Love
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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in English
1429555475 9781429555470
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Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
November 8, 2007, Penguin Press HC, The, Penguin Press
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1594201404 9781594201400
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