A digital archive of terkels oral histories is one of 177 projects funded by new grants from the national endowment for the humanities. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading working. Studs terkel, american author and oral historian who chronicled the lives of americans from the great depression to the early 21st century. Its hard, but if youre given regular hours, better pay, decent housing, unemployment and medical compensation, pension planswe have a very relaxed. Studs terkel, prizewinning author and radio broadcast personality was born louis terkel in new york on may 16, 1912. It is about ulcers as well as accidents, about shouting. Working in america explores authentic, raw, and honest stories focused on the daily desire to survive, thrive, participate and contributestories of how we locate ourselves in society, how we are seen or.
Studs terkel won the pulitzer prize in 1985 for his interviews with ordinary people in such books as working, the good war, and hard times. The great interviewer of his day, terkel celebrated the uncelebrated, and working elevated the stories of ordinary people and their daily lives. Paul tibbets, the man who piloted the enola gay on its mission to japan, tells studs terkel why he has no. In the early 1970s, author and radio host studs terkel went around the country with a reeltoreel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. Working is a sobering and, in an unexpected way, enormously elevating read in its totality a record of daily dignity even amid the most trying of circumstances. Louis studs terkel may 16, 1912 october 31, 2008 was an american author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. Jonathan katz discusses his book gay american history. Bmg rights management, cmrra, abramus digital, emi music publishing, aresa. Studs terkel american author and oral historian britannica. People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do terkel, studs on.
It is just barely possible that the attitude reflected. Studs terkel was born on may 16, 1912 in new york city, new york, usa as louis terkel. I suppose that its important, before we begin hammering this book, to recall that it was written in the early 1970s. Cleve jones talks about the names project foundation and aids quilt. Studs terkel was born in the bronx on may 16, 1912, the third son of samuel terkel, a tailor, and the former anna finkel, who had emigrated from bialystok, poland. Studs terkels classic oral history working is a compelling look at jobs and the people who do them. Perhaps studs terkels bestknown book, working is a compelling, fascinating look at jobs and the people who do them. Working by studs terkel overdrive rakuten overdrive. Terkel, who performed a heroic job of work in his own grinding routine of interviewing.
Studs terkels book interviews resurface as audio all this week on npr, youll hear the voices of people studs terkel interviewed in his book, working. Rereading studs terkels working for pandemic chicago. Revisiting studs terkels working the quintessential book about labor day was published 30 years ago last spring. This is the official studs terkel radio archive soundcloud page. Studs terkels working new jobs, same need for meaning studs terkels 1974 oral history working became a broadway musical. The actor has recorded the audiobook version of my memoir, life itself, and my. Terkel has spent most of his life working this river, investigating the lives of the common, ordinary people who fill our land, trying to make their stories seen and heard, in the hope of showing the people.
Studs terkel 19122008 was a free spirit, an outspoken populist, a pulitzer prizewinning author, a terrible ham, and one of the bestloved characters on the american scene. Introduction this book, being about work, is, by its very nature, about violenceto the spirit as well as to the body. He received the pulitzer prize for general nonfiction in 1985 for the good war and is. Studs terkel s book interviews resurface as audio all this week on npr, youll hear the voices of people studs terkel interviewed in his book, working. And how could a guy named studs terkel not do a cool book. He received the pulitzer prize for general nonfiction in 1985 for the good war, and is best remembered for his oral histories. Browse our growing archive of more than 1,200 programs. His father, samuel, was a tailor and his mother, anna finkel was a seamstress. Studs terkels interviews with 1970s working people resurface on npr the famed chicago author and radio host left behind boxes of tapes after he died in 2008.
Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet. Terkel compiled a series of books based on oral histories that defined america in the 20th century. He was an actor, known for eight men out 1988, medium cool 1969 and studs. Raised in chicago in the 1920s and 30s, gwendolyn brooks stands among the most influential and. The studs terkel radio archive is a collaboration between the wfmt radio network and the chicago history museum chicago. In 1973, he selected several interviews that were included in his book to be broadcast in. Studs terkel working pdf download should have added an interview with studs. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Often called an oral historian, studs terkel preferred to be. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head. Studsterkel radio archive free listening on soundcloud. Studs terkels interviews with 1970s working people.
In 1952, terkel began studs terkels almanac on radio station wfmt in chicago. Terkel interviewed hundreds of people across the united states for his book on the great depression of the 1930s. People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do hardcover february 12, 1974. Or you could open working by studs terkel, which was published 46 years ago this spring, though like many of you right now, it bristles with familiar questions and complaints and aspirations. Working by studs terkel paperback the original work used by stephen schwartz and his collaborators in creating the. Terkel gets workers from waitresses and steel workers to dentists and ad executives to confess whats really in their souls and how they really feel. Studs talks to everybody about their work, holding nothing backthe book leaves you with the feeling that people do the best they can, and its done with warmth and candor. People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do is a 1974 nonfiction book by the oral historian and radio broadcaster studs terkel. The best of studs terkel brings you a midcentury doubleheader with two trailblazing cultural icons.
Film and theater collects the pulitzer prizewinning oral historians remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of film and theater. Consisting of over one hundred interviews with everyone from a gravedigger to a studio head, this. Studs terkel on the dignity of work, why we do what we do. Studs terkels working new jobs, same need for meaning.
The wfmt studs terkel radio archive a living celebration. This series is a part of the larger initiative working in america, which has an exhibit featuring images from pulitzer prizewinning photographer lynsey addario traveling the country right now. Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from gravediggers. From the 1950s through 1997, studs terkel, author of working, the good war, coming of age and eight other books, hosted a daily show on. In his 45 years on wfmt radio, studs terkel talked to the 20th centurys most interesting people. After spending his early childhood in new york city, terkel moved. People talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do kindle edition by terkel, studs. Working by by studs terkel this working book is not really ordinary book, you have it then the world is in your hands. Working in the fields is not in itself a degrading job. Everybody whos nobody and the nobody whos everybody. Louis studs terkel was an american author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. Studs terkel reads a mike royko column on working in chicagos city hall duration. Oral historian studs terkel talks about the prime impulse of human beings. This series is a part of the larger initiative working in america, which has an exhibit featuring images from pulitzer prize.
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