12 American Voices: An Authentic Listening and Integrated-Skills Textbook

Maurice Cogan Hauck, Kenneth MacDougall, David Isay

Yale University Press, 2002 - Foreign Language Study - 179 pages

'Twelve American Voices' presents a series of entertaining and culturally rich radio documentaries by award-winning producer David Isay. These stories, which were first broadcast on National Public Radio, focus on a range of individuals living and working in contemporary America, from an immigrant Chinese restaurant owner in New York City to an African-American waitress who helped integrate a Southern lunch counter, from the owner of a pawnship-wedding chapel to a retired couple who have become disk jockeys.

About the author

Executive producer of Sound Portraits Productions, an independent production company. He is a regular contributor to All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. Over the past ten years his radio documentary work has won two Peabodies, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards and most recently the MacArthur Prize. He lives in New York City

Bibliographic information

• Title: 12 American Voices: An Authentic Listening and Integrated-Skills Textbook; Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography; Yale Language Series
• Authors: Maurice Cogan Hauck, Kenneth MacDougall, David Isay
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Yale University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0300089600, 9780300089608
• Length: 179 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Reference / Dictionaries