Volume 8, Number 9 · May 18, 1967
The Lower Depths
By Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Up the Junction
by Nell Dunn
Lippincott, 127 pp., $3.95
Division Street: America
by Studs Terkel
Pantheon, 381 pp., $5.95
In the past few years, there has been greatly increased interest in the use of individual case studies in books designed to give the general reader an understanding of what life is like in social circumstances very different from his own. The most impressive of these works have been Oscar Lewis's books on the lives of the Latin American poor, which differ from the two books here reviewed in that Lewis deals with the same individuals and families throughout an entire volume; while Mr. Terkel and Miss Dunn have woven their books together out of brief, though related, vignettes. Like Lewis, Miss Dunn confines her interest to the lives of the poor; while Terkel encompasses the whole spectrum of economic life in Chicago.
Review, 1812 words
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