![]() ![]() Years after his childhood observances in the hotel lobby, listening to and conversing with Wobblies (IWW laborers), anarchists, conservatives, and many other kinds of urban drifters – Terkel returned to the period through oral histories. Known as a keen listener, Terkel loved to tell and retell his favorite stories. His later book, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize. He published numerous books and continued to broadcast about oral history on the radio. Oral history was only then emerging as a professional historical methodology and Terkel became the great popularizer of the field. Gradually, he began recording and writing about his conversations with both noted and “everyday” individuals. Instead, he joined a theater group and later became a radio actor and disc jockey. Although he later completed a law degree at the University of Chicago, Terkel had no intention of practicing law. Between the start of the Great Depression and the early years of the New Deal, the author of this book – Studs Terkel (1912-2008) – was a young man working in his parent’s Chicago boarding hotel. ![]()
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