Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
242 pp, $19.95 pbk, ISBN: 9781583675939
By Alan Wieder
Excerpted in Alternet
“One of three sons of immigrant Jews from Bialystok, Poland, Louis “Studs” Terkel was born on May 16, 1912, in New York City. In 1922, Studs moved with his parents and his two brothers to Chicago, where he lived for the rest of his life. Actor, disc jockey, author, raconteur, husband and father, Studs is probably best known as host of the The Studs Terkel Show from 1952 to 1997 on Chicago’s WFMT. The program earned him the title of ‘Mr. Chicago’ and many people in the city have said they always knew it was between ten and eleven in the morning if they caught an earful of his radio program….”
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