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Studs Terkel

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Studs Terkel

1912 – 2008

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Studs Terkel was born Louis Terkel in New York on May 16, 1912. The family moved to Chicago in 1922 and opened a rooming house. From 1926 to 1936 they ran another rooming house, the Wells-Grand Hotel at Wells Street and Grand Avenue. Terkel credited his knowledge of the world to the tenants who gath…

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Louis Terkel, Louis "Studs" Terkel, tuds Terkel (Author) Studs Terkel, Studs terkel

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The Good War

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Hard times

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Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy

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My American century

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Sez who? sez me

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