Touch and go: a memoir
At nearly 95, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. Here he offers a memoir which--embodying the spirit of the man himself--is youthful and vivacious. Terkel begins by taking us back to his childhood, describing the hectic life of a family trying to earn a living in Chicago. He then goes on to his experiences--as a poll watcher charged with stealing votes for the Democratic machine, as a young theatergoer, and eventually as an actor himself in both radio and on …
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- Full title :Touch and go : a memoir / Studs Terkel ; with Sydney Lewis.
Summary
At nearly 95, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. Here he offers a memoir which--embodying the spirit of the man himself--is youthful and vivacious. Terkel begins by taking us back to his childhood, describing the hectic life of a family trying to earn a living in Chicago. He then goes on to his experiences--as a poll watcher charged with stealing votes for the Democratic machine, as a young theatergoer, and eventually as an actor himself in both radio and on the stage--giving us a portrait of the Chicago of the 1920s and 1930s. He tells of his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War II and as an interviewer and oral historian--a craft he would come to perfect. Finally, he discusses his involvement with progressive politics, leading to his travails during the McCarthy period when he was blacklisted.--From publisher description.
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- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Distributed by W.W. Norton, New Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781595585875, 1595585877
- oclc:ocn680284449
- LC Classification:PN1990.72.T4
- Dewey Decimal:384.54092
Table of Contents
I: Street scene -- Bound for glory -- The rooming house -- The convention that would never end -- Teachers of the Gilded Age -- The hotel -- A good citizen -- II: Seeking work -- The actor -- Observer to activist -- A bouquet from the Colonel -- Ida -- Reveille -- Lucky breaks I -- III: American dreamer -- Are you now or have you ever been ... -- Blacklist -- Lucky breaks II -- A casual conversation -- the feeling tone -- IV: Truth to power -- Didn't your name used to be Dave Garroway? -- Two towns called Girard -- Evil of banality -- ... And nobody laughed -- Old gent of the right -- Einstein and the rest of us.
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