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Détails
| Genre/forme : | Biography |
|---|---|
| Format physique additionnel : | Print version: Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008. Touch and go. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007 (DLC) 2007018673 (OCoLC)124074902 |
| Personne nommée : | Studs Terkel |
| Type d’ouvrage : | Biographie, Document, Ressource Internet |
| Format : | Ressource Internet, Fichier informatique |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Studs Terkel |
| Numéro OCLC : | 608378553 |
| Description : | 1 online resource (xviii, 269 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill. |
| Détails : | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Contenu : | I: Street scene -- Bound for glory -- The rooming house -- The convention that would never end -- Teachers of the Gilded Age -- The hotel -- A good citizen -- II: Seeking work -- The actor -- Observer to activist -- A bouquet from the Colonel -- Ida -- Reveille -- Lucky breaks I -- III: American dreamer -- Are you now or have you ever been ... -- Blacklist -- Lucky breaks II -- A casual conversation -- the feeling tone -- IV: Truth to power -- Didn't your name used to be Dave Garroway? -- Two towns called Girard -- Evil of banality -- ... And nobody laughed -- Old gent of the right -- Einstein and the rest of us. |
| Responsabilité : | Studs Terkel ; with Sydney Lewis. |
| Bibliothèque participante : | University of Michigan |
Résumé :
At nearly 95, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. Here he offers a memoir which--embodying the spirit of the man himself--is youthful and vivacious. Terkel begins by taking us back to his childhood, describing the hectic life of a family trying to earn a living in Chicago. He then goes on to his experiences--as a poll watcher charged with stealing votes for the Democratic machine, as a young theatergoer, and eventually as an actor himself in both radio and on the stage--giving us a portrait of the Chicago of the 1920s and 1930s. He tells of his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War II and as an interviewer and oral historian--a craft he would come to perfect. Finally, he discusses his involvement with progressive politics, leading to his travails during the McCarthy period when he was blacklisted.--From publisher description.
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