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Oral History Books
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 63,429 ratings — published 1997
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 36,206 ratings — published 1996
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 19,939 ratings — published 2002
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,145 ratings — published 2013
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 37,851 ratings — published 1983
The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,783 ratings — published 1984
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,908 ratings — published 1970
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,765 ratings — published 1974
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,796,193 ratings — published 2019
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 26 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.72 — 42,409 ratings — published 2019
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 559,405 ratings — published 2006
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,407 ratings — published 2017
Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,327 ratings — published 2011
I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,816 ratings — published 2011
The Daily Show (The Audiobook): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
by (shelved 16 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,768 ratings — published 2016
Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,930 ratings — published 2020
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,466 ratings — published 2011
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,785 ratings — published 1989
Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,485 ratings — published 1985
The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,831 ratings — published 2020
All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,307 ratings — published 2018
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 32,935 ratings — published 2021
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,299 ratings — published 2018
Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.13 — 1,352 ratings — published 2013
Edie: American Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,294 ratings — published 1982
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 114,230 ratings — published 2010
Doing Oral History: A Practical Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 182 ratings — published 1994
The Oral History Reader (Routledge Readers in History)
by (shelved 11 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.76 — 78 ratings — published 1997
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,004 ratings — published 2024
Hollywood: The Oral History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,018 ratings — published 2022
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,867 ratings — published 2022
West of Eden: An American Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.35 — 1,449 ratings — published 2016
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 22,019 ratings — published 1997
Race: How Blacks And Whites Think And Feel About The American Obsession (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 572 ratings — published 1992
The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,244 ratings — published 2005
Welcome to Dunder Mifflin: The Ultimate Oral History of The Office (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,608 ratings — published 2021
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years: From The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams: The Complete, Uncensored, and Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 976 ratings — published 2016
The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek-The First 25 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,396 ratings — published 2016
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 69,870 ratings — published 2007
Japan at War: An Oral History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,004 ratings — published 1992
Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,580 ratings — published 2023
As If!: The Oral History of Clueless as told by Amy Heckerling and the Cast and Crew (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,737 ratings — published 2015
Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,317 ratings — published 2014
Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 911 ratings — published 2009
They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History (Oxford Oral History Series)
by (shelved 7 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.20 — 154 ratings — published 2010
Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 241 ratings — published 1990
The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,378 ratings — published 2007
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 48,514 ratings — published 2001
Recording Oral History: A Guide for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as oral-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 66 ratings — published 1994
But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?: An Oral History of the ’60s Girl Groups (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oral-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 519 ratings — published 2023
“Reality may be too complex for oral transmission; legend recreates it in a manner which is only accidentally false and which allows it to go about the world, from mouth to mouth.”
― A Personal Anthology
― A Personal Anthology
“To illustrate this claim, Benjamin relates a fable about a father who taught his sons the merits of hard work by fooling them into thinking that there was buried treasure in the vineyard by the house. The turning of soil in the vain search for gold results in the discovery of a real treasure: a wonderful crop of fruit.
With the war came the severing of ‘the red thread of experience’ which had connected previous generations, as Benjamin puts it in ‘Sketched into Mobile Dust’. The ‘fragile human body’ that emerged from the trenches was mute, unable to narrate the ‘forcefield of destructive torrents and explosions’ that had engulfed it. Communicability was unsettled. It was as if the good and bountiful soil of the fable had become the sticky and destructive mud of the trenches, which would bear no fruit but only moulder as a graveyard. ‘Where do you hear words from the dying that last and that pass from one generation to the next like a precious ring?’ Benjamin asks.”
― The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness
With the war came the severing of ‘the red thread of experience’ which had connected previous generations, as Benjamin puts it in ‘Sketched into Mobile Dust’. The ‘fragile human body’ that emerged from the trenches was mute, unable to narrate the ‘forcefield of destructive torrents and explosions’ that had engulfed it. Communicability was unsettled. It was as if the good and bountiful soil of the fable had become the sticky and destructive mud of the trenches, which would bear no fruit but only moulder as a graveyard. ‘Where do you hear words from the dying that last and that pass from one generation to the next like a precious ring?’ Benjamin asks.”
― The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness
