Get Hold Of P.S.: Further Thoughts From A Lifetime Of Listening Devised By Studs Terkel Accessible Through Textbook

read some Studs. Know there are better places to start, but it was an orphan work in the As among "Recreation for the Southern Gentleman" and "Opinions on Various Things," a four volume, goldembossed work from the turn of the century.
Did really enjoy his Christmas story and the Baldwin interview, This book of essays and articles previously published was a bit hard to followStuds Terkel was evidently a guy who wrote about his time, his city and his peoplenot all of that was interesting to me.
Studs Terkel is smarter than I am and I feel like I should take a class to learn more.
I think I'll practice better listening and check out more books in the meantime, The Pulitzer Prizewinning oral historian and nonagenarian makes a selection of his favorite unpublished writings, broadcasts, and interviews.


Millions of Studs Terkel fans have come to know the prizewinning oral historian through his landmark books"The Good War", Hard Times, Working, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, and many others.
Few people realize, however, that much of Studs's best work was not collected into these thematic volumes and has, in fact, never been published.
P. S. brings together these significant and deeply enjoyable writings for the first time,

The pieces in P, S. reflect Studs's wideranging interests and travels, as well as his abiding connection to his hometown, Chicago.
Here we have a fascinating conversation with James Baldwin, possibly Studs's finest interview with an author pieces on the colorful history and culture of Chicago vivid portraits of Studs's heroes and cohorts including an insightful and still timely interview with songwriter Yip Harburg, known for his "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime" and the transcript of Studs's famous broadcast on the Depression, the very moving essence of what was to become Hard Times.


A fitting postscript to a lifetime of listening, P, S. is a truly Terkelesque display of Studs's extraordinary range of talent and the amazing people he found to talk to.
A book that reminds you that a form of English language is one of the few things that links us Brits to our American cousins, and even that doesn't help at times.
The journalistic style gets annoying and especially the overlong parts put into parentheses which have you forgetting what the point was that was being made at the start of that particular passage of script.
Probably this is a better book than I'm giving it credit for, Reading radio transcripts and miscellaneous interviews was hard to get through without any real background of his fuller works.
I read a little bit of Studs Terkel in my high school Humanities class, but never really got into him until I read this book.
My favorite pieces are the interviews with James Baldwin, E, Y. "Yip" Harburg inspired me to check out his Finnian's Rainbow on Netflix, one interviewing a woman named Peggy Terry marvelous quotes on the intersection of race and class, and the last piece originally aradio montage called Born to Live.
" "So may we leave the world a little more truth, a little more justice, a little more beauty than would have been there had we not loved the world enough to quarrel with it for what it is not, but still could be.
" i loved the earlier pieces in this book studs' voice totally comes through, as does some of the people he writes about.
but some of the pieces are transcripts from his radio show, and don't always translate to the page as well.
still good stuff but very much what one might expect for a book culled from random bits amp pieces of studs' career.
Studs was an icon and walking history, "All art is a kind of confession" I picked this up at a used books store as Terkel is one of my favorites.
This short collection of works is not one of my favorites it doesn't hold a central theme as effectively as some of his more notable collections, and some of his own essays I found harder to decipher in today's day and age.
But there were a few notables I enjoyed, including his interviews with James Baldwin, E, Y. Yip Harburg, and the collections in Part III A Gathering of Survivors children of the Great Depression and Born to Live a wide ranging group of voices with a central theme of man's menace to man.
For his own essays, while aspects I found harder to interpret, are still a fascinating glimpse into Chicago's past.
Louis Studs Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster, He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction infor The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long running radio show in Chicago.
Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history, Hisbook The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two, which detailed ordinary peoples accounts of the countrys involvement in World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize.
For Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Terkel assembled recollections of the

Great Depression that spanned the socioeconomic spectrum, from Okies, through prison inmates, to the wealthy.
Hisbo Louis "Studs" Terkel was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster, He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction infor "The Good War", and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long running radio show in Chicago.
Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history, Hisbook "The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two", which detailed ordinary peoples' accounts of the country's involvement in World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize.
For "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression", Terkel assembled recollections of the Great Depression that spanned the socioeconomic spectrum, from Okies, through prison inmates, to the wealthy.
Hisbook, "Working" also was highly acclaimed, In, he received the Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Journalism and Communications, In, Terkel was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Two years later, he received the George Polk Career Award in, sitelink.