Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation

by Alan Wieder

Book Overview

Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist who valued human beings over political dogma. In scores of books and thousands of radio and television broadcasts, Studs paid attention - and respect - to "ordinary" human beings of all classes and colors, as they talked about their lives as workers, dreamers, survivors. Alan Wieder's Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583675930
• ISBN13: 9781583675939
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"