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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A nice gift from Uncle Mody, I'm surprised I haven't investigated the works of Studs Terkel before. Terkel was a Chicago institution, a radio interviewer with a gift for extracting those stories from people, ordinary and not-so-ordinary, which make each life unique and flavorful. It was said he could get a taxi ride and have the cabbie's life story before the ride was over, and I believe it. This intriguing biography, by an Englishman, was arrived at by interviewing dozens of friends, family and colleagues.Terkel also wrote several "classics of oral history", such as "Working", "Hard Times", and "The Good War" (he won the Pulitzer for that one), and this book whets my desire to check them out. Sadly, Terkel died a few months before I received this book; I wished I'd taken the opportunity to go to Chicago while he was alive and learn some more about an ordinary and remarkable man. ( ) no reviews | add a review
"Studs Terkel: A Life in Words is the story of a broadcasting and writing phenomenon and represents the remarkable result of a sequence of meetings between the two supreme masters of the tape-recorded interview, America's Studs Terkel and Britain's Tony Parker. For forty years, Studs Terkel's daily radio talk show, based in Chicago, has won him national recognition. His best-selling books, including Hard Times, Working, and his Pulitzer Prize-winner "The Good War," are classics of oral history and have brought him international fame." "In this meeting of the maestros, Tony Parker recounts Terkel's life story using Terkel's own method, that of the tape-recorded interview. Through a kaleidoscope of voices - from John Kenneth Galbraith, Mike Royko, and Calvin Trillin to Terkel's office assistant, his family, friends, and the people with whom he's worked - the master interviewer gradually emerges. But the soul of the book is found in Parker's extended interviews with Terkel himself." "This is the first biography with which Terkel has cooperated, and in a series of fascinating conversations we come to know not only the highlights of his life but also the personality of the man who can discover the essence of people's lives in their answers to his questions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)791.44The arts Recreational and performing arts Public performances Film, Radio, and Television RadioLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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