Studs Terkel (1912–2008)
Autore di Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Sull'Autore
Studs Terkel was an actor, writer, and radio host. He was born Louis Terkel on May 16, 1912 in New York City. He took his name from the James T. Farrell novel, Studs Lonigan. Terkel attended the University of Chicago and graduated with a law degree in 1934. Terkel acted in local stage productions mostra altro and on radio dramas until he began one of the first television programs, an unscripted show called Studs Place in the early 1950s. In 1952, Terkel began Studs Terkel's Almanac on radio station WFMT in Chicago. Terkel compiled a series of books based on oral histories that defined America in the 20th Century. Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do received a National Book Award nomination in 1975. The Good War: An Oral History of World War II won the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction in 1985. Working was turned into a hit musical in 1978. Terkel was named the Communicator of the Year by the University of Chicago in 1969. He also won a Peabody Award for excellence in journalism in 1980 and the National Book Foundation Medal for contributions to American letters in 1997. He died on October 31, 2008 at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo by Robert Birnbaum (courtesy of the photographer)
Opere di Studs Terkel
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974) 2,130 copie
Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler (2003) — Prefazione — 82 copie
Four Decades with Studs Terkel: A Compilation of Extraordinary Interviews from 40 Years of Broadcasting (1993) 4 copie
En by i Amerika 1 copia
Rapport fra en amerikansk by 1 copia
Chicago 1 copia
Opere correlate
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women (2006) — Prefazione — 1,092 copie
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Collaboratore — 514 copie
The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (2007) — Collaboratore — 125 copie
Semper Fi: Stories of the United States Marines from Boot Camp to Battle (2003) — Collaboratore — 31 copie
Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of Firefighting (2002) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
The history of Chess jazz — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The revolutionary poet in the United States : the poetry of Thomas McGrath (1988) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Dissent, Winter 1972: Special Issue: The World of the Blue Collar Worker — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Terkel, Louis
- Altri nomi
- TERKEL, Studs
TERKEL, Lewis - Data di nascita
- 1912-05-16
- Data di morte
- 2008-10-31
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Istruzione
- University of Chicago (PhB)
University of Chicago Law School (JD) - Attività lavorative
- writer
oral historian
radio host
television host
actor - Organizzazioni
- Federal Writers' Project
Works Progress Administration
WFMT - Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (1997)
National Humanities Medal (1997)
George Polk Career Award ( 1999)
Great Lakes Book Award ( 1998)
Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Lifetime Achievement Award (2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1997) - Breve biografia
- Studs Terkel was born in New York City to Russian Jewish immigrants. He moved with his parents to Chicago where his parents ran a boarding house. Though graduating from law school, Terkel chose not to practice law. He joined a theater group and did other work until he began writing. In the 1950's, he was blacklisted from television for refusing to sign a loyalty oath to CBS. He was married to social worker Ida Goldberg for 60 years before her death in 1999. Studs Terkel is survived by one son, Dan Terkel.
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Recensioni
Ignited an interest in oral history recording.
Nobody does oral History like Studs Terkel: 101 Americans speak about their imagines future
In this book, Terkel relays oral histories of people who were exposed to the Depression including farmers, politicians, industrialists, African Americans, artists. You name it, it's in there. It is history through the eyes of the common and not-so-common man.
It strikes me that a book like this would be highly unlikely to be published today - - in the days where YouTube and blogging provide thousands of first person accounts of the world around us. Available in seconds.
I thought that this book would be truly fascinating, but because I didn't really know enough (or recollect enough history classes) about the Depression, I found myself constantly distracted by the many acronyms for government programs. Some of the folks really told about what life was like in and interesting way, but others reminded me of old, boring people who just were telling dull, tangential stories.
All in all, I think if the author had prefaced his chapter with some analysis of the group of people he was talking to and some historical facts, I would have loved the book. But the standalone oral histories didn't quite do it for me.
Nonetheless, I would read more Terkel, but if I selected one of his books that focused on a historical event, I'd read a background book first on the event so I was a little more educated before delving into the histories.… (altro)
It strikes me that a book like this would be highly unlikely to be published today - - in the days where YouTube and blogging provide thousands of first person accounts of the world around us. Available in seconds.
I thought that this book would be truly fascinating, but because I didn't really know enough (or recollect enough history classes) about the Depression, I found myself constantly distracted by the many acronyms for government programs. Some of the folks really told about what life was like in and interesting way, but others reminded me of old, boring people who just were telling dull, tangential stories.
All in all, I think if the author had prefaced his chapter with some analysis of the group of people he was talking to and some historical facts, I would have loved the book. But the standalone oral histories didn't quite do it for me.
Nonetheless, I would read more Terkel, but if I selected one of his books that focused on a historical event, I'd read a background book first on the event so I was a little more educated before delving into the histories.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 45
- Opere correlate
- 27
- Utenti
- 9,617
- Popolarità
- #2,494
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 99
- ISBN
- 198
- Lingue
- 11
- Preferito da
- 20
But still these interviews are lopsided in a way. Nasty as it may sound I still want to hear from those, whom these workers despise or simply don't understand. It would be a revealing read too - to see the motives of a careerists, sweatshop foremen, managers in malls and cafeterias etc...
They may sound shallow and disgusting, but they still need to be heard. We need a broader picture.… (altro)