Listen to New Voices on Studs Terkel our partnership with 826CHI-here! Read the Story
Showing 16 - 30 of 34 results
Studs Terkel and James Cameron talk about their witness of the peaceful demonstration at Lincoln Park the night before. They discuss the kind and caring interaction between older adults and the young. Both reflect on how the event changed from peaceful to somewhat violent when police gathered and used tear gas on the crowd.
Discussing the article "The wife of L.A. man."
Discussing the election with James Cameron.
Discussing 1981 with James Cameron.
Interviewing Dieter Lattman : Studs Terkel in Germany.
While in a Dusseldorf prison, Gitty Sereny spent 70 hours interviewing Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp. Her book, "Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience," questions how could an ordinary man with a wife and children become such an evil monster. Stangl rationalized his job by saying he never hurt anyone, that he never murdered anyone. Sereny said in the end, the only guilt Stangl harbored was that of still being alive.
Discussing the book "With enough shovels: Reagan, Bush and nuclear war " with the journalist-author Robert Scheer.
Discussing the book "Like I was sayin" with the author-journalist Mike Royko.
Studs interview with German writer and freelance journalist, Dieter Lattman, who shares his military family background and the influence that WW II had on his desire to involve himself in politics. They discuss other German authors and the German family and culture. Studs quotes German journalist and political critic, Joachim Kaiser, who called the young people of Germany a "fatherless generation." Studs interviews Lattman in Germany.
Discussing "L.S.D" and interviewing journalist David Solomon.