![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We also see Studs, the devoted husband to his adored wife, Ida. We see the actor, the writer, the radio host, the jazz lover, whose early work in television earned him a notorious place on the McCarthy blacklist. We see Studs, the eminent oral historian, the inveterate and selfless supporter of radical causes, especially civil rights. Alan Wieder’s Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation is the first comprehensive book about this man.ĭrawing from over one hundred interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs, Alan Wieder creates a multi-dimensional portrait of a run-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. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention-and respect-to “ordinary” human beings of all classes and colors, as they talked about their lives as workers, dreamers, survivors. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America’s cult of celebrity. ![]()
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