Terkel, Studs (1912—)
Studs Terkel was born Louis Terkel in New York City. When he was eight, his family moved to Chicago, a city of raw midwestern muscularity and deep jazz rhythms that sharpl...
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The radio personality and author Louis Terkel (born 1912) was best known for his oral histories of ordinary Americans. These anthologies of interviews show how people felt about key historical events ...
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"Next to Richard Nixon, the person whose life has been most dramatically affected by the tape recorder is Studs Terkel," according to Paul Gray in Time. For some two decades, Terkel has been the sympa...
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Terkel, Studs (1912-)
Louis Terkel
Studs Terkel