Studs Terkel: politics, culture, but mostly conversation

Description

Introduction -- From Bialystok to Chicago -- Work, theater, politics, and most importantly, Ida -- Chicago television, the Blacklist, and WFMT -- Politics, disparity, and white supremacy -- Civil rights and WFMT -- Division Street America -- Engaging youth: the Democratic Convention and continuing progressive politics -- Hard times and working: books and life -- Memoir meets oral history -- Chicago and beyond: the first half of the 1980s -- "The good war" -- Controversy at work: but life goes on -- 80th birthday and other milestones -- Grief, and then again life -- Will the circle be unbroken and hope dies last -- Completing the circle -- Epilogue.;Wieder draws from over one hundred interviews of people who knew and worked with Studs to create a multidimensional portrait of a run-of-the-mill guy from Chicago who, in public life, became an acclaimed author and storyteller, while managing, in his private life, to remain a mensch. --From publisher description.