Title Statements
- Full title :Touch and go : a memoir / Studs Terkel ; with Sydney Lewis.
Summary
At nearly 95, Studs Terkel [the author] 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. [He] 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.-Dust jacket.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
Notes
Originally published: New York : New Press, ©2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 audio disc ; : 4 3/4 in.
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:ocn189986733
- Dewey Decimal:384.54092
Table of Contents
Street scene -- Bound for glory -- Rooming house -- Convention that would never end -- Teachers of the gilded age -- Hotel -- Good citizen -- Seeking work -- Actor -- Observer to activist -- Bouquet from the colonel -- Ida -- Reveille -- Lucky breaks I -- American dreamer -- Are you now or have you ever been -- Blacklist -- Lucky breaks II -- Casual conversation -- Feeling tone --Truth to power -- Didn't your name used to be Dave Garroway? -- Two towns called Girard -- Evil of banality -- Nobody laughed -- Old gent of the right -- Einstein and the rest of us.
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