Coming of Age, Studs Terkel
Coming of Age, Studs Terkel
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Coming of Age
Growing Up in the Twentieth Century

Author: Studs Terkel

Narrator: Allen Hamilton, Shirley Venard

Abridged: 2 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/14/2009

Synopsis

“We don’t know anything about the past and we don’t seem to want to know it. And all the time the people who can tell us about it, make it meaningful, the real repositories of living information, are being lost.”—Studs Terkel

For Coming of Age, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Peabody Award-winning radio host interviewed a diverse assortment of men and women ranging in age from 70 to 99. This audio includes the stories of 14 people who lived through the defining moments of the 20th century. Together they represent an extraordinary panorama of American life and work throughout the century and the ways in which the times have changed.

For Coming of Age is a compelling picture of what we have gained through “progress”—and what we have lost.

About Studs Terkel

Born in 1912, Studs Terkel grew up in Chicago. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1932 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1934. He was an actor in radio soap operas, a disk jockey, a radio commentator, and a television emcee, and he traveled all over the world doing on-the-spot interviews. He also hosted a daily radio program on WFMT in Chicago that was syndicated throughout the country. He is the author of American Dreams: Lost and Found; Working; Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression; Division Street: America Giants of Jazz; and Talking to Myself. He died on October 31, 2008.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joel

I read a recommendation to read Studs Terkel because I love World War Z, and while Terkels work is all non-fiction interviews the style is similar. This was a great read and filled with really cool stories of post war life, a lot of progressive stories (labor, sexuality, poverty, equality, racism),......more

Goodreads review by Mark

In 1993-4, Terkel sought our people in their 70s, 80s and 90s to talk about their lives - past and current. This is the sort of project that should be completed every decade. If only there was a worthy successor tp Studs Terkel.......more

Goodreads review by Keith

Studs Terkel was eighty three years old when he gathered and published this collection of interviews with people we kindly refer to as “elders” or less reverentially as “those in their dotage”. Some are as “young” as septuagenarian and a few qualify as centenarian but what impressed me was that alth......more

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