Article: Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, 2nd ed.

ORAL HISTORY: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY ANTHOLOGY. Second edition. Edited by David K. Dunaway and Willa K. Baum. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1996. 432 pp. Hardbound, $48.00; Softbound, $23.95.

Many years ago at a regional oral history conference, I met a man who proudly told me that in his retirement years he had set about to document his community's history through oral history interviews. He went on to explain that he had found a foolproof method that overcame his subjects' hesitation to record their memories on tape: He would cajole the potential interviewee into taking a ride with him through town. As they drove he and his interviewee would talk, ...

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