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	Studs Terkel : Conversations with America
		Studs Terkel, prize-winning author and radio broadcast personality was born Louis Terkel in New York on May 16, 1912.
		Terkel credits his knowledge of the world to the tenants who gathered in the lobby of the hotel and the people who congregated in nearby Bughouse Square {LISTEN}, a meeting place for workers, labor organizers, dissidents, the unemployed, and religious fanatics of many persuasions.
		Terkel attended University of Chicago and received a law degree in 1934.
	www.studsterkel.org /bio.php (471 words)

	Studs Terkel
		Studs Terkel is a wise and watchful chronicler of life and hard times in the United States, and anyone planning a Terkel-like study of the in the 20th century should have him at the top of the list of people to be interviewed.
		Terkel keeps himself off tape, but he remains a presence as he guides his subjects into revealing themselves and, later, as he edits them so that their stories become as dramatic as fiction.
		Terkel was born in New York City (as Louis Turkel), he has lived in Chicago since he was 8, and he is known, along with the columnist Mike Royko, who died in April, as the voice of that city.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/3511/FAMOUS/Studs.htm (1621 words)

	Studs Terkel
		Studs Terkel was born Louis Terkel in the Bronx, New York.
		Terkel went on to publish a series of books in which he interviewed everyday people about different subjects.
		Terkel, who is now in his nineties, has said that he wants his epitaph to read, "Curiosity never killed this cat." The author continues to work on his books and currently serves as a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the Chicago Historical Society.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-051604-terkel.html (536 words)

	Studs Terkel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And an interview with Studs Terkel-one of the greatest oral historians of this century-means an interview with the thousands of people whose lives Studs has recorded.
		Studs believes Coming of Age is reaching 70, "when you are rich to take part.
		Studs points to the subtitle, The Story of the Century by Those Who've Lived It.
	www.grandtimes.com /studs.html (370 words)

	Studs Terkel - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Studs Terkel, prize-winning author and radio broadcast personality was born Louis...
		Studs Terkel got his nickname because he reminded people of the...
		Studs Terkel is perhaps best known for his 1970 book Hard Times: An Oral History of the...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/studs-terkel/70296/main (155 words)

	Studs Terkel
		Terkel refused to give evidence against other left-wing activists and was therefore fllisted and prevented from appearing on television.
		Terkel has been described as a historian and a sociologist but he prefers to call himself a "guerrilla journalist with a tape recorder".
		Terkel has built a career on the hunch that pretty much everyone might be worth trying to talk to: the rich and famous, certainly, and burglars and murderers and Ku Klux Klansmen - but most of all the teeming, unexamined mass of American life in between.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAterkel.htm (855 words)

	CNN.com - Books - Studs Terkel: A lifetime listening to America - December 14, 2000
		Studs Terkel has made a living gathering the stories of ordinary people and presenting them to America.
		Studs Terkel was born in New York 88 years ago, but it was Chicago that became both his physical and spiritual home.
		Studs' talent was in putting these people at ease to reveal the richness of their supposedly mundane lives.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/books/news/12/14/studs.terkel (1158 words)

	Amazon.ca: Coming of Age: Books: Terkel Studs,Studs Terkel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Studs Terkel, himself an octogenarian, has personally interviewed senior citizens ranging from their early 70's to almost 100 years of age.
		Terkel, a feisty fighter himself, has naturally picked a large proportion of social and political activists - people who see the world as imperfect then and imperfect now - but always worth fighting for.
		Studs Terkel captures in this volume what few children of the new millennium will ever learn about or experience: how our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents grew up, grew old, and left footprints on the twentieth century.
	www.amazon.ca /Coming-Age-Terkel-Studs/dp/156511132X (1234 words)

	Columns: Studs Terkel is what characters are made of
		As Studs (he's the kinda guy you just naturally call by his first name) might say, it was the genuine article all right.
		As Studs tells the story of Pete Haywood, a former gangbanger, in a stream-of-conscious riff, he transports me to Stateway Gardens, sandwiched between Comisky Park, Mies van der Rohe's Illinois Institute of Technology and police headquarters: "Drugs are being sold back and forth, cars come in from the suburbs.
		Studs still works in an upstairs room, strewn with papers and books that seem to have been falling to the floor for years, like the layers of an archaeological dig.
	www.sptimes.com /News/072901/Columns/Studs_Terkel_is_what_.shtml (1220 words)

	Studs Terkel \| SEIU.org
		Studs Terkel knows a thing or two about work. ; After graduating from University of Chicago's Law School in 1934, he pursued acting and appeared on stage, in radio, and in the movies.
		Terkel has devoted his life to documenting the experiences of everyday Americans and chronicling our nation's ever-changing social, cultural, and political history.
		Terkel's unique awareness of how work intrinsically shapes us as individuals and as a nation drove him to capture the voices of men and women from all walks of life.
	www.seiu.org /community/araw_honorees/terkel.cfm (335 words)

	Studs Terkel
		Studs had signed petitions believed to be Communist in origin, for price control, rent control and anti-Jim Crow.
		Studs says, with recorder in hand, he would choose to record that moment in history, 1995 years ago on Good Friday, Christ's execution day.
		Another irony Studs may yet witness is the probability that some eager historian-also a technophile-will issue a computer CD-ROM complete with Studs' interviews, his voice and style immortalized, his cast of characters brought into everyone's living room.
	www.grandtimes.com /studs2.html (967 words)

	The My Hero Project - Studs Terkel
		Terkel is as famous for his unstoppable wit and energy as he is for his interviews.
		Terkel being interviewed by Sedge Thompson for Thompson's radio show,"West Coast Live." From Sedge Thompson on the West Coast to The Connection's Dick Gordon on the East, Terkel is finally talking about his own life and work.
		Terkel continues to write, travel, and speak throughout the country with all the energy, compassion, and wisdom with which he began his career.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=s_terkel (1158 words)

	Terkel, Studs (1912—) Biography \| sjpc_04_package.xml
		Studs Terkel was born Louis Terkel in New York City.
		In 1951, anticommunist fever was rising, and Terkel's television career was cut short when NBC discovered he had signed leftist petitions seeking reform on such controversial issues as rent control and segregation.
		Not interested in pat answers or definitive statements, Terkel took delight in the astonishing variety of human experience, and it is that delight he passes on to his readers, like a jovial host at a huge gathering.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/terkel-studs-1912-sjpc-04 (657 words)

	Conversation with Studs Terkel, full text
		And CBS says, "Mahalia, we're going to give you a national radio program." She says, "Yes," and, "Studs Terkel is going to be the host," she said.
		And, in fact, I'll read Studs to Studs, because in your biography this is what you say: "As I look back at the McCarthy period, my obstinacy was not due to any moral stance.
		Studs, I wanted to say that I was afraid that you wouldn't feel at home with a Berkeley audience, so that I should have some props here.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people3/Terkel/terkel-con0.html (5851 words)

	Online NewsHour: Two Authors Talk About Writing the Lives of Chicago Natives -- August 3, 2005
		Studs Terkel is known for extensive conversations with Americans from all walks of life that chronicle the profound changes in the nation during the 20th century.
		Like Terkel, Kotlowitz has focused on the disadvantaged in his books, "The Other Side of the River" and the best-selling "There Are no Children Here," which was selected as one of the 150 most important books of the century by the New York Public Library.
		STUDS TERKEL: We play it back and she hears her voice and she says something, suddenly puts her hand to her mouth and says, "Oh, my God!" I said, "What is it?" She said, "I never knew I felt that way before."
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec05/studs_8-03.html (1563 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Hope Dies Last - An Hour with Legendary Broadcaster and Author Studs Terkel
		Studs Terkel, 91, has worked as an activist, a civil servant, a labor organizer, an ad writer, a television actor, and a radio DJ, among many other occupations.
		Studs Terkel, who has graced not this studio before, but we have spoken to him in both Chicago and here in New York.
		Studs Terkel- for half a century, broadcaster and author, probably more, spent an hour every weekday on his nationally syndicated radio show conversing with the famous and not-so-famous guests, with a loyal audience of Chicago listeners.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=03/11/04/161221 (4930 words)

	America's storyteller - Salon
		Studs Terkel didn't invent the oral history, but as far as modern journalism is concerned, he might as well have.
		Terkel talks to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the Ohio Democrat (and current presidential candidate), whose family lived briefly in a Packard automobile when he was a child, and to Rep. Dan Burton, the Indiana Republican, who has horrific memories of his father beating his mother before his eyes.
		When Terkel interviews Leroy Orange, a man who spent 19 years on death row for a murder he did not commit before being pardoned in 2001 by Illinois Gov. George Ryan, Orange actually says he is grateful for the whole experience.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/int/2003/11/27/studs/index.html (1196 words)

	Amazon.com: Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times: Books: Studs Terkel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Terkel draws his subjects from an incredibly broad range of backgrounds: pardoned Illinois death row inmate Leroy Orange discusses the events of his life, 94-year-old famed economist John Kenneth Galbraith talks about Enron, undocumented Guatemalans tell of trying to merely survive in modern America.
		Terkel, 91 years old at the time of this book's publication, draws from a wealth of human experience but is spry enough to take on new causes and skillfully profile youthful activists with emerging causes.
		Terkel worries that Americans are losing hope and consequently losing a collective call to social activism for which hope, he feels, is requisite.
	www.amazon.com /Hope-Dies-Last-Keeping-Difficult/dp/1565848373 (2258 words)

	Historical Voices
		Drawing from newspaper articles, radio and TV programs, celebrating the life of Studs Terkel, students are asked to develop a chronology of his life.
		Working in small groups, and using the internet, and excerpts from Studs Terkel's book "The Good War: An Oral History of World War II" read descriptions of other individuals' expressions of the impact of war on their lives.
		If you chose to follow the same subject that the Studs Terkel excerpt focused on, compare and contrast the information that you gathered with the information he collected.
	www.historicalvoices.org /inner/teachers/studs1.html (886 words)

	Legendary Studs Terkel to visit campus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Terkel, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday, has had a long and multifaceted career as a broadcaster, actor, playwright, jazz columnist, disc jockey, network personality and author.
		Terkel was born Louis Terkel in New York on May 16, 1912.
		But it is Terkel's oral histories of working people, the Great Depression, American race relations and World War II that are known worldwide, praised by the public and critics alike.
	www.niu.edu /northerntoday/2002/july15/terkel.shtml (593 words)

	Studs Terkel by Aaron Chambers
		Studs Terkel is on the other side of the tape recorder.
		Terkel likes to say, for instance, that there’s only one other man who was as enamored of the tape recorder: the late Richard Nixon.
		He says, “Studs has a way of making people tell their stories and making it clear that people who are not intellectuals or wealthy or whatever really have something worth saying and have made vital contributions to society.
	illinoisissues.uis.edu /features/2001dec/terkel.html (2407 words)

	In These Times \| No Brass Check Journalists
		Studs comments were directed at the cult of celebrity that the media worships at the expense of real news.
		Terkel: I have more than a dozen brass checks (that I did not actually earn, you understand) and would be happy to send you one that would also be good for a "bath and beans." As for the election(s)...
		Studs, I had the honor to interview you ages (is it 28 years already?) ago in George Whitman's study above the bookshop in Paris.
	www.inthesetimes.com /comments.php?id=410_0_1_0_M (6875 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Studs Terkel
		Terkel has chosen people with the widest range of experiences from all around the country, from the angry farmer in Nebraska to the resigned bank president in New York, to those who were at the vanguard of their movements, whether of trade unions, gay liberation, or the arts.
		It is inspiring in the honesty of its voices, the lack of nostalgia and illusion, and the mixed feelings of hope and sorrow for the new generations that may not know what they have missed.
		Pulitzer Prize-winner Studs Terkel will be eighty-six this year, placing him right in the middle of those he interviewed for this book.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/terkel.html (736 words)

	Studs Terkel
		Terkel's signature could be found on calls for price controls and rent control, opposing lynching and Jim Crow laws, and most frightfully, calling for the US to seek friendship with the Soviet Union instead of spending billions on the Cold War.
		Fearing they had a communist on their hands, the network cancelled Studs' Place, and later Terkel was investigated by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee.
		Terkel has since written numerous oral histories, about subjects as varied as the Great Depression, World War II, race relations in America, the American dream, growing old, and working.
	www.nndb.com /people/640/000022574 (652 words)

	CLA: Studs Terkel
		Studs Terkel, legendary journalist and raconteur, will appear in San Jose as a guest of the Center for Literary Arts at San José State University (SJSU) and the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley.
		Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and recipient of the John Steinbeck Award and National Medal of Humanities, Studs Terkel is the author of over two dozen books including Working, The Good War, Coming of Age, Hard Times, Talking to Myself, Chicago and his newest Hope Dies Last.
		Terkel graduated law school—never to practice—in 1934, and since then he's been a playwright, a radio news commentator, a sportscaster, a film narrator, a jazz columnist, a disc jockey, and a music festival host; when he called one of his best known books My American Century, it was no exaggeration.
	www.litart.org /terkel/terkel.htm (163 words)

	We The People Media / Residents' Journal / Urban Youth Journalism Program
		Below is the text of the speech given by Residents' Journal's Publisher, Ethan Michaeli, given on April 19 at the Studs Terkel Awards.
		On behalf of us all, and all of those who could not be here with us tonight, I would like to thank Studs Terkel and the Community Media Workshop for this award.
		Receiving the Studs Terkel Award is particularly important to us on a personal level.
	www.wethepeoplemedia.org (3990 words)

	Matters of Life and Death
		Studs Terkel is fingering a bratwurst-sized stogie with one hand and adjusting his hearing aid with the other, while somehow still managing to gesticulate with both.
		Terkel spoke to Mother Jones at his Chicago home, surrounded by mementos of his late wife, correspondence from young admirers, piles of books and papers, and a tape recorder that needed to be fixed so he could get back to his next project.
		Studs Terkel: About 25 years ago, when Working came out, I was sitting with Gore Vidal at the bar of the Ambassador East Hotel in Chicago.
	www.mojones.com /arts/qa/2001/11/studs_terkel.html (1499 words)

	Studs Terkel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis "Studs" Terkel (born May 16, 1912) is an American author, historian and broadcaster.
		At 94 years old, he was one of the oldest people to undergo this form of surgery and doctors reported his recovery to be remarkable for someone of his advanced age.
		On May 22, 2006, Terkel, along with other plaintiffs, filed a suit in federal district court against ATandT to stop them from giving customer phone records to the National Security Agency without a court order.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Studs_Terkel (803 words)

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