Studs Terkel
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About Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel (16 May 1912 – 31 October 2008)[1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago. Terkel was born to a Russian Jewish tailor, Samuel Terkel, and Anna Finkelin in New York City, New York. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent most of his life.
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Blessed Be the Nation
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I Heard A Man Talking
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The Human Voice
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Dorothy Parker, 1959
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Pete Seeger, 1955
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Introduction - The 1950s
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Alan Lomax, 1959
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Aaron Copland, 1961
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James Baldwin, 1961
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Gore Vidal, 1961
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Tennessee Williams, 1961
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Mahalia Jackson, 1963
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Introduction - The 1960s
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Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, 1959
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Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1964
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Woody Allen, 1965
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Part One
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Buckminster Fuller, 1965
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Introduction - Three Funny Men
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Oh, Sacred World
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Zero Mostel, 1961
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Norman MacLean, 1976
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Introduction - The 1980s
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Arthur Miller, 1987
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Introduction / The Frog / Alberta / Cripple Creek / Old Joe Clark / I Wonder Why / Makin' My Get-Away/ Little Margaret / In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
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John Henry Faulk, 1971
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Andreas Segovia, 1978
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Margaret Mead, 1965
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Margot Fonteyn, 1979
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Wole Soyinka, 1979
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Leonard Bernstein, 1985
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A Conversation with Studs Terkel
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Laurie Anderson, 1982
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Introduction - The 1970s
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Simone De Beauvoir, 1960
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Kenneth Tynan, 1962
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Toni Morrison, 1974
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Maya Angelou, 1970
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Mel Brooks, 1968
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Eudora Welty, 1989
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Isabel Allende, 1991
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Part Two
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Nadine Gordimer, 1963
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Introduction - Voices Recorded In Other Places
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Daniel Ellsberg, 1972
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Jacob Bronowski, 1962
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John Cage, 1982
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Stephen Jay Gould, 1991
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Garry Wills, 1984
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Garrison Keillor, 1997
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