Studs Terkel
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"Louis "Studs" Terkel" was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for “The Good War”, and is best remembered for his oral history/oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.

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You ask what the score of the game was and they wouldn't know who's playing.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

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And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

I'm seeing something and I'm not standing silent about it. Humans are pushed out to make room for cars.

If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.

Race: How Blacks & Whites Think & Feel About the American Obsession.