TDS Studs Terkel

[frogbison]

Thanks in advance to whomever can supply me to the link to this AWESOME interview, and how to save it for the ages....

[pacalo]

1. Check this link tomorrow...

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/authors/index.jhtml

[Hidden Stillness]

2. "Hard Times"

I love Studs Terkel, one of the greatest American authors ever. After all these years, after my parents read all of Studs Terkel's books when each came out, and after every single one of them was a best-seller, I am finally reading "Hard Times." This is one of the greatest books I have ever read--a beautiful blend of history, sociology, oral history, memoir, and a wonderful natural editing that keeps the content...it is enthralling.

I used to hear all about this book, for all those years when my parents were alive, and they lived through it, but it was all so far away, and I never asked them about it. Now, after the Bush-Cheney horror, the Depression seems not only closer, but it is breathing down my neck, and now that I finally feel these things, I wish that I had asked. I did not, but now I have the wonderful Studs Terkel and "Hard Times," (which I know both of my parents loved), and I feel this is what they would have told me. This was how they lived.

[frogbison]

4. Thank you

I'll look for his books. He was so impressive. I don't have a prayer of being that coherant 30 years his junior!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. "Working" is one of my all time favorite books

It's one of those books that sort of grows on you...and even though the labor market has changed since it was written (I read it in college) it is still quite relevant..for that matter it was turned into a musical with a great cast...every once in a while it can still be caught on PBS

[frogbison]

3. Jesse Jackson/Colber

Same deal. Great stuff! We are alive!!..!!..!!

[mucifer]

5. they should have given Studs the entire half hour.

mcain could wait for another day. I wonder how much longer we will have Studs. I've listened to his radio shows since I was a kid. Occaisionally he is still on the local Chicago NPR. I have an audiotape collection of some of his interviews since the '50s including: James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Leonard Bernstein, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Isaac Bashevis Singer and more. There is even a short clip with Mahalia Jackson and MLK. His books are wonderful. "Working" was my favorite.

[frogbison]

6. Thank you!