bump.

I want to recommend Studs Terkel, "Division Street: America". It was Studs' breakthrough work. It's all write-ups of interviews done with people in Chicago in the sixties. I'm getting to know more about what life was like then, and earlier, all in these peoples' own words.

A quote, by one Gladys Pennington:
"I think this is a real great country. I think most people are on the ball. I think most people love their houses, love their lawns and their shrubs and their plants and their mode of life, and I think they'd to anything to protect their way of life. There are those, the unsuccessful few, and they hate everything. But the majority of the people like it the way it is, corrupt, maddening, aggravating, horrible, we would fight to keep it that way. We wouldn't have it any other way because we can still go down and blow off steam to some minor bureaucrat when something aggravates us. And if nothing comes of it, we don't get locked up for it."

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159...lance&n=283155