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  • Richard J. Daley

    Studs Terkel discusses contemporary Chicago politics with Dick Simpson and Mike Royko

    Jul. 22, 1971
  • David Solomon

    David Solomon talk with Studs Terkel

    Nov. 30, 1964
  • Tom Wolfe

    Studs Terkel interviews Tom Wolfe ; part 2

    Jul. 26, 1965
  • Harrison E. Salisbury discusses his book on the 1917 Russian revolution, "Black Night, White Snow"

    Feb. 2, 1978
  • Laurie Abraham

    Laurie Abraham reads from and discusses her book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead"

    Oct. 1, 1993
  • Studs Terkel

    Terkel comments and presents "Hard Times: an oral history of the great depression" ; Program 5 ; part 1

    1971
  • Discussing the book "Starving in the shadow of plenty" with the author Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

    Sep. 3, 1981
  • Discussing the book, "Before the Mayflower," with Lerone Bennett, Jr. ; part 1

    1964
  • Interviewing Marty Robinson as "Fireball Kozak" (On Track 1) and reading Ring Lardner's "Alibi Ike" with Lou Gilbert, Marty Robinson and Jim Unrath (on Track 2).

    Apr. 5, 1963
  • Discussing the book "The 100 Best Jobs for the 1990s and Beyond" with author and syndicated columnist Carol Kleiman

    Jun. 11, 1992
  • Discussing the book "Observing the Nixon Years: 'Notes and Comment' from the New Yorker on the Vietnam War and the Watergate Crisis, 1969-1975" with Jonathan Schell

    May. 18, 1989
  • Discussing the book "Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?" with journalist and author Molly Ivins

    Oct. 25, 1991
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