Touch and go : a memoir / Studs Terkel ; with Sydney Lewis.
Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.
2007
PN1990.72.T4 A3 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Touch and go : a memoir / Studs Terkel ; with Sydney Lewis.
Author Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008.
ISBN 9781595580436
1595580433
Imprint New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007.
Language English
Description xviii, 269 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PN1990.72.T4 A3 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 384.54092 B
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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