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Studs Terkel : politics, culture, but mostly conversation / Alan Wieder.
Van Pelt Library PN1990.72.T4 W54 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wieder, Alan, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.
- Terkel, Studs.
- Broadcasters--United States--Biography.
- Broadcasters.
- United States.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Monthly Review Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Drawing from over one hundred interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs, Wieder creates a multidimensional portrait of a ran-of-the-mill guy from Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and raconteur, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- From Bialystok to Chicago
- Work, theater, politics, and most importantly, Ida
- Chicago television, the blacklist, and WFMT
- Politics, disparity, and white supremacy
- Civil rights and WFMT
- Division street America
- Engaging youth: the democratic convention and continuing progressive politics
- Hard times and working: books and life
- Memoir meets oral history
- Chicago and beyond: the first half of the 1980s
- "The good war"
- Controversy at work: but life goes on
- 80th birthday and other milestones
- Grief, and then again life
- Will the circle be unbroken and hope dies last
- Completing the circle
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781583675939
- 1583675930
- 9781583675946
- 1583675949
- OCLC:
- 934248590
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