Studs Terkel
Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
$53.95
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2016
Summary
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 colours, as they talked about their lives as workers, dreamers, survivors. Alan Wieder’s Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation is the first comprehensive book about this man. Drawin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583675939 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583675930 |
| Author: | Alan Wieder |
| Publisher: | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Monthly Review Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
About The Author
Alan Wieder
Alan Wieder is an oral historian who lives in Portland, Oregon. He is distinguished professor emeritus at the University of South Carolina and has taught at the University of the Western Cape and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. In the last fifteen years, he has published three books and numerous articles on South Africans who fought against the apartheid regime. The latest book, Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid, was published in 2013 by Monthly Review Press.
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