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The
Studs Terkel Program |
| Studs’
WFMT radio program in Chicago enabled him to explore civic interests
and the arts, and to make important connections between the
past, the present, and the future.
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Division
Street: America |
| Division Street:
America is Studs Terkel’s look at twentieth century
urban life in and around Chicago. |
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Hard
Times |
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Terkel interviewed hundreds of people across the United States
for his book on the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1973,
he selected several interviews that were included in his book
to be broadcast in eleven parts on the Studs Terkel Program
on WFMT radio (Chicago, IL). This gallery includes the interviews
in those programs.
Terkel questions people about their recollections of employment
problems, the crash of 1929, organized labor issues, “farm
holidays” where crops were destroyed, and U.S. President
Franklin Delanor Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.
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The
Good War |
| In The
Good War Terkel presents the good, the bad, and the ugly
memories of World War II from a perspective of forty years of
after the events. |
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Race |
| For
this book Terkel interviewed a cross-section of Americans about
their views on race. Though many interviews center in Chicago,
people discuss experiences growing up in various locations,
their migration experiences from the southern United States,
and how they understood racial changes at different points in
their lives. |
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Talking
to Myself |
| In Talking
to Myself, Studs Terkel revels in life. He has, since graduating
from the University of Chicago Law School in 1934, been a civil
service employee, stage, radio, and movie actor, playwright, jazz
columnist, disc jockey, panel moderator, lecturer, film narrator,
music festival host, radio news commentator and sportscaster, network
personality ("Studs' Place," "The Great American
Dream Machine") and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. For more
than 40 years he was heard on Chicago's fine arts radio station
WFMT; where each morning he hosted "The Studs Terkel Show." |
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Greatest
Hits |
| A collection
of Studs Terkel's most memorable recordings selected by the
author. |
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