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i don't know what else to say. if you haven't read one or two of his books then you're missing out on some wonderful history.
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"CHICAGO – Studs Terkel, the ageless master of listening and speaking, a broadcaster, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people he liked to call the "non-celebrated," died Friday. He was 96.
Dan Terkell said his father died at home, and described his death as "peaceful, no agony. This is what he wanted."
"My dad led a long, full, eventful, sometimes tempestuous, but very satisfying life," Terkell said in a statement issued through his father's colleague and close friend Thom Clark.
He was a native New Yorker who moved to Chicago as a child and came to embrace and embody his adopted town, with all its "carbuncles and warts," as he recalled in his 2007 memoir, "Touch and Go." He was a cigar and martini man, white-haired and elegantly rumpled in his trademark red-checkered shirts, an old rebel who never mellowed, never retired, never forgot, and "never met a picket line or petition I didn't like."
"A lot of people feel, 'What can I do, (it's) hopeless,'" Terkel told The Associated Press in 2003. "Well, through all these years there have been the people I'm talking about, whom we call activists ... who give us hope and through them we have hope.""
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Roshi
Our friend did a production of "Working" (he's a drama teacher at a high school). It was wonderful, full of the voices of the blue collar workers, but in a joyful way. One of my favorite parts was the female Operator talking about liking it when the person on the other end asked how she was doing, and remembered that she was an actual person on the other end of the switchboard.
He will be missed.
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ignatius
he's inspired a lot of people and opened lot's of eyes so hopefully someone picks up the torch and carries on. "Hard Times" is one of my favs and appropriate to read now i think. so much history from the mouths of people who lived it. he captured so many amazing stories and perspectives.
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hecanjog
sad to see him go, but he had such an amazing and long life. rip
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utofbu
Tony Hillerman passed last week too. now another legend. What full lives they had though.
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electrodan
He was certainly an interesting fellow.
I remember reading Hard Times in college, that was really fascinating.
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chimplogic
wow. sad indeed. may he r.i.p. definitely had a long and wonderful life though.
i was lucky enough to have met him a couple of times while i was working for the city of chicago/department of cultural affairs.
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