{"id":244,"date":"2008-11-06T18:48:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T22:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2008-11-08T11:37:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T15:37:23","slug":"studs-terkel-1912-to-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/studs-terkel-1912-to-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Studs Terkel: 1912 to 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Studs (Louis) Terkel, broadcaster and oral historian, born May 16 1912; died October 31, 2008
\nSee <\/em><\/strong>ChicagoTribune Obituary<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Over 40 years ago Studs Terkel began a conversation with the American people, asking them to expose their everyday lives. He tenderly and truthfully told our story (the
\nAmerican and the human) throughout his career as broadcaster and writer. His two well known books, Working<\/em> <\/a><\/strong>(1974) and Race: How blacks and whites think and <\/a><\/strong><\/em>feel about the American obsession<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(1992), <\/em>are good examples of his oral history style.<\/p>\n

Selected\u00a0Works by\u00a0Studs Terkel\u00a0at FAU Libraries:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hope dies last: Keeping the faith in difficult times<\/em><\/strong> (2003)
\nJupiter Campus\u00a0BD216 .T47 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Will the circle be unbroken?: Reflections on death, rebirth, and hunger for a faith<\/strong><\/em> (2001)
\nBoca Campus BD444 .T47<\/p>\n

Coming of age: The story of our century by those who’ve lived it<\/em><\/strong> (1995)
\nBoca, Jupiter, Treasure Coast\u00a0 HQ1064.U5 T44<\/p>\n

Hard times: An oral history of the great depression<\/strong><\/em> (1986)
\nJupiter Campus E806 .T45<\/p>\n

“The good war”: An oral history of World War Two<\/em><\/strong> (1984)
\nBoca, Jupiter, Treasure Coast\u00a0 D811.A2 T45<\/p>\n

American dreams, lost and found<\/strong> (1980)
\nBoca, Jupiter, Treasure Coast CT220 .T42<\/p>\n

Division street: America<\/strong><\/em> (1968)
\nBoca and Jupiter F548.52 .T4<\/p>\n

Listen\u00a0to interviews\u00a0Studs Terkel conducted on his radio show and for his books at\u00a0Conversations with America<\/a> from the Chicago Historical Society.<\/p>\n

Listen to local oral histories at\u00a0Digital <\/em>Collections@FAU<\/em> Libraries<\/em><\/a>:
\nThe Pearl City Oral History Collection<\/a>\u00a0and FAU History Department’s Oral History Collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tribune photo by Charles Osgood<\/span><\/span>\/May 16, 2007<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Studs (Louis) Terkel, broadcaster and oral historian, born May 16 1912; died October 31, 2008 See ChicagoTribune Obituary Over 40 years ago Studs Terkel began a conversation with the American people, asking them to expose their everyday lives. He tenderly and truthfully told our story (the American and the human) throughout his career as broadcaster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,64,63,62],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-in-the-library","tag-add-new-tag","tag-digital-collections-fau","tag-oral-history","tag-studs-terkel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}