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The extraordinary life and times of an American iconthe Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's long-awaited memoira major publishing event. 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 whichembodying the spirit of the man himselfis youthful, vivacious, and enormous fun. 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 experiencesas 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 stagegiving 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 historiana 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 o

Who reads Touch and Go : a Memoir?

Author

Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008

Publisher

New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781595580436

Category

history

Subjects

Business, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.77 / 5 (208 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14