Studs Terkel
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Library: Articles
Bernstein, Dennis & Julie Light. "The 400-year old tinderbox: a conversation about race with Studs Terkel," Sacramento News & Review (6/25/92):28-29.
Jacobsen, Kurt. "Studs Terkel [interview]", Progressive (7/92):24-27. "The evil of banality is what I find so horrible in Bush & Reagan."
Moberg, David. “The people’s storyteller,” In These Times (5/13/02).
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Baker, James Thomas. Studs Terkel (NY: Twayne, 1992).
Berman, Phillip L. & Connie Goldman (eds.) The Ageless Spirit (NY: Ballantine, 1992).
Parker, Tony. Studs Terkel: A Life in Words (NY: Henry Holt, 1996).
Terkel, Studs. Giants of Jazz [1957] (rev. ed.; NY: New Press, 2002).
__________. Division Street: America (NY: Pantheon, 1967).
__________. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (NY: Pantheon, 1970).
__________. Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day & How They Feel About What They Do (NY: Pantheon, 1974).
__________ & others. Envelopes of Sound: Six Practitioners Discuss the Method, Theory & Practice of Oral History & Oral Testimony (Chicago: Precedent, 1975).
__________. Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times (NY: Pantheon, 1977).
__________. American Dreams: Lost & Found (NY: Pantheon, 1980).
__________. "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II (NY: Pantheon, 1984).
__________. Chicago (NY: Pantheon, 1986).
__________. The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream (NY: Pantheon, 1988).
__________. Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel about the American Obsession (NY: New Press, 1992).
__________. Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It (NY: New Press, 1995).
__________. My American Century (NY: New Press, 1997).
__________. The Spectator: Talk About Movies & Plays with the People Who Make Them (NY: New Press, 1999).
__________. Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, & Hunger for a Faith (NY: New Press, 2001).
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