Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel (1912-2008) was a free spirit, an outspoken populist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a terrible ham, and one of the best-loved characters on the American scene. Born in New York in 1912, he lived in Chicago for over eight decades. His radio show was carried on stations throughout...
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Studs Terkel (1912-2008) was a free spirit, an outspoken populist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a terrible ham, and one of the best-loved characters on the American scene. Born in New York in 1912, he lived in Chicago for over eight decades. His radio show was carried on stations throughout the country.
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Birth date: May 16, 1912
Died: October 31, 2008
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This is the World War II info that you won't find in the history books. If you've read any of Terkel's books, you know what to expect: an expansive cross-section of people giving their perspectives on the topic at hand. It sounds so simple, but it isn't. I wish our military and civilian leaders woul...
this is a fairly legendary work, and I was pleasantly surprised to see German accounts and Japanese oral histories included in what the title would seem to suggest is part of that Brokaw agit-prop genre, 'Greatest Generation.' d'ya know statistical analyses has been carried out on WW2 combat medal c...
I thought I'd remembered Studs Terkel, in another book "Working", interviewing a somewhat troubled rodeo clown who was a flamethrower in Vietnam. But no, that was someone else's book about the Meaning of Life. So it´s also been many years since reading The Good War, but I can´t remember war being de...
A masterfully organized relating of oral anecdotes from Great Depression America. The author collected them all himself and they range from touching to depressing to amusing to astounding.
This book was amazing! I learned so much information, and even more importantly, got a great perspective on the war and the times surrounding it. It has so many interviews from so many different kinds of people. I'm lending this book to one of my friends in a hurry.
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