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245	0	0	_aListening is an act of love _b: a celebration of American life from the StoryCorps Project _c/ edited and with an introduction by Dave Isay.
260			_aLondon : _aNew York _b: Penguin Press _c, c2007.
300			_a284 p. _b: ill. _c; 22 cm.
505			_aHome and family -- Work and dedication -- Journeys -- History and struggle -- Fire and water -- Story of StoryCorps.
520			_aFrom 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 Lovetouchingly reminds us of this powerful truth.
610	2	0	_aStoryCorps (Project)
650		0	_aNational characteristics, American
650		0	_aInterviews _x--United States
650		0	_aOral history
651		0	_aUnited States _x--Social life and customs _y--1945-1970 _v--Anecdotes
651		0	_aUnited States _x--History _y--1945 _v--Anecdotes
651		4	_aUnited States _x--Social life and customs _y--1971 _v--Anecdotes
700	1		_aIsay, David
942			_cMO
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