Hope Dies Last

Studs Terkel was a Chicago icon who championed the "common man" during his long literary, radio and television career. Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times is a series of interviews chronicling the lives of common people living their hope through labor organizing, civil rights advocacy and social justice protesting. I wonder whether mainstream white Americans have lost their connections with the causes that seemed so important in the 1960s and 70s? Were they only a fad? Have these causes been left to minorities alone to promote them? Have birthers, 2nd Amendment advocates and "Tea Partiers" replaced the young whites of the sit-in, side by side with their minority brothers and sisters? Do we still even consider each other brother and sister Americans any more? Where have all the civil "disobediencers" gone? They are still out there, and you can read about them in this book. Time will tell if this book is a museum piece or a clarion call.