false <![CDATA[Touch and Go: A Memoir]]> 1062694 4 <B>The extraordinary life and times of an American icon&#151;the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's long-awaited memoir&#151;a major publishing event.</B><BR><BR>At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In Touch and Go, he offers a memoir which&#151;embodying the spirit of the man himself&#151;is youthful, vivacious, and enormous fun.<BR><BR>Terkel begins by taking us back to his early childhood with his father, mother, and two older brothers, describing the hectic life of a family trying to earn a living in Chicago. He then goes on to recall his own experiences&#151;as a poll watcher charged with stealing votes for the Democratic machine, as a young theatergoer, and eventually as an actor himself in both radio and on the stage&#151;giving us a brilliant and often hilarious portrait of the Chicago of the 1920s and '30s. He tells of his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War II and as an interviewer and oral historian&#151;a craft he would come to perfect and indeed personify. Finally, he discusses his involvement with progressive politics, leading inevitably to his travails during the McCarthy period when he was blacklisted and thrown out of work despite having become by then one of the country's most popular TV hosts.<BR><BR>Fans of Studs Terkel will find much to discover in these remarkable reminiscences. Others will be captivated to learn of the unique and eclectic life of one of America's greatest living legends. 1049301 1 11 2007 Touch and Go: A Memoir total:63|5:15|4:27|3:17|2:2|1:2| 63 240 160 29 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 22:12:31 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 18:37:51 -0800 2009 Unabridged: 9 hrs and 55 mins

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The only issue I had with this book were the last few essays where he was played the starring role of Old Man in the tired old drama Railing Against Youth.

The rest of the book was an amazing foray through ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 11:39:06 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 11:41:25 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Oct 19 07:10:45 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 10 07:54:03 -0800 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1062694