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HardCover. Pub the Date: November 2007 Pages: 304 in Publisher: Penguin Group. (USA) Incorporated. From more than ten thousand It doesn''. StoryCorps-the largest for 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 celeation of our shared humanity. capturing for posterity the storie...

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"Dave Isay's "Listening Is an Act of Love" is a gift. I loved this book. I savored these stories. So candid. So open-hearted. So full of life. The StoryCorps project may well be the most important cultural event in America today. It's about us. About who we are. About where we've come from, and where we want to go. "Listening Is an Act of Love" is the equivalent of eavesdropping on America. Read it - and pass it on to family and friends. It'll inspire." -Alex Kotlowitz "Here are the observations and memories of a giant, diverse nation's citizens. In its sum, StoryCorps asks Americans to reflect upon their experiences, their times of travail, their achievements. In so doing, these individuals create an encompassing national narration: a people's hopes, fears and aspirations, all rendered poignantly to attentive listeners whose respect has enabled, finally, a presentation of a people's mind, heart, soul." -Dr. Robert Coles, James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University

Dave Isay's vision of collecting the everyday stories of Americans is so simple and yet so powerful. "Listening Is an Act of Love" will make you laugh, cry and think. These stories come from the souls of individual Americans. Collectively, they are who we are as a people. You cannot read this book without feeling proud of your country." -Former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley "Dave Isay's "Listening Is an Act of Love" is a gift. I loved this book. I savored these stories. So candid. So open-hearted. So full of life. The StoryCorps project may well be the most important cultural event in America today. It's about us. About who we are. About where we've come from, and where we want to go. "Listening Is an Act of Love" is the equivalent of eavesdropping on America. Read it - and pass it on to family and friends. It'll inspire." -Alex Kotlowitz "Here are the observations and memories of a giant, diverse nation's citizens. In its sum, StoryCorps asks Americans to reflect upon their experiences, their times of travail, their achievements. In so doing, these individuals create an encompassing national narration: a people's hopes, fears and aspirations, all rendered poignantly to attentive listeners whose respect has enabled, finally, a presentation of a people's mind, heart, soul." -Dr. Robert Coles, James Agee Professor of Social Ethics, Harvard University "This book is absolutely remarkable. "Listening is an Act of Love" is history in the richest sense of the word, the kind that makes people feel like they count. It's a celebration of the lives of the uncelebrated. In our world today people feel helpless, but once they speak of their lives they become alive! This is what our country is all about.Never has a book been more timely or necessary." -Studs Terkel

aEach interview is a revelation.a
a"USA Today"
a As heartwarming as a holiday pumpkin pie and every bit as homey . . . what emerges in these compelling pages is hard-won wisdom and boundless humanity.a
a"Seattle Post-Intelligencer"

Each interview is a revelation.
"USA Today"
As heartwarming as a holiday pumpkin pie and every bit as homey . . . what emerges in these compelling pages is hard-won wisdom and boundless humanity.
"Seattle Post-Intelligencer"

?Each interview is a revelation.?
?"USA Today"

? As heartwarming as a holiday pumpkin pie and every bit as homey . . . what emerges in these compelling pages is hard-won wisdom and boundless humanity.?
?"Seattle Post-Intelligencer"

"Each interview is a revelation."--"USA Today"

" As heartwarming as a holiday pumpkin pie and every bit as homey . . . what emerges in these compelling pages is hard-won wisdom and boundless humanity."--"Seattle Post-Intelligencer"
"Each interview is a revelation."--"USA Today"
" As heartwarming as a holiday pumpkin pie and every bit as homey . . . what emerges in these compelling pages is hard-won wisdom and boundless humanity."--"Seattle Post-Intelligencer"

Each interview is a revelation. "USA Today"
As heartwarming as a holiday pumpkin pie and every bit as homey . . . what emerges in these compelling pages is hard-won wisdom and boundless humanity. "Seattle Post-Intelligencer""

Each interview is a revelation. USA Today
As heartwarming as a holiday pumpkin pie and every bit as homey . . . what emerges in these compelling pages is hard-won wisdom and boundless humanity. Seattle Post-Intelligencer"
About the Author:
Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company, Sound Portraits Productions. Over the past two decades his radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting, including five Peabody awards. Dave has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship. He is the author (or coauthor) of four books based on Sound Portraits radio stories, includingOur America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago and Flophouse. He and his wife, Jennifer Gonnerman, live in Brooklyn.

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