AARP Radio: Studs Terkel
By: Mike Cuthbert |
Listen to Mike Cuthbert's interview with the journalism legend.
Studs Terkel, 96, the preeminent oral historian of 20th-century America who described the major events of his time through the experiences and observations of the ordinary men and women who lived them, died October 31, 2008 at his home in Chicago after a fall.
As a radio host and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Terkel used a folksy but probing interviewing style to draw out unfiltered answers from political leaders and common people alike. He illuminated America from the ground up, seeking out stories from bartenders, housewives, businessmen, artists, doctors, social workers, coal miners, farmworkers, bookmakers and convicts.
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