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Authors, Writers
  • Vine Deloria

    Vine Deloria discusses Native American rights and history

    Jan. 20, 1975

    Vine Deloria discusses Native American rights and history focusing on treaties formed and broken by the United State government. Original recording 1965063-3-1 includes music by Buffy Sainte-Marie.

  • Vine Deloria

    Vine Deloria discusses his book "The Metaphysics of Modern Existence"

    Oct. 12, 1979

    Vine Deloria discusses his book "The Metaphysics of Modern Existence", religion, ethics, Native Americans, Native American culture, and Native American history. Includes a previous interview with Vine Deloria at O'Hare Airport.

  • Valentin Pluchek and Stanislaw Pchenikov discuss Russian theater, specifically Moscow ; part 1

    Jan. 19, 1962

    Studs Terkel interviews Valentin Pluchek and Stanislaw Pchenikov on Russia theater, focusing mainly on the city of Moscow.

  • Tom Wolfe

    Tom Wolfe discusses his book "From Bauhaus to Our House"

    Nov. 16, 1981

    Discussing the book "From Bauhaus to our house" with the author and journalist Tom Wolfe.

  • Terkel comments and Ronald Blythe reads Report from an English village ; part 2

    Sep. 19, 1986

    Reading "Report from an English Village" and interviewing the author Ronald Blythe while Studs was in London.

  • Terkel comments and Ronald Blythe reads Report from an English village ; part 1

    1968

    Reading "Report from an English Village" and interviewing the author Ronald Blythe while Studs was in London.

  • Tennessee Williams

    Tennessee Williams talks with Studs Terkel

    Dec. 1961

    Playwright Tennessee Williams discusses his play "The Night of the Iguana," which was currently playing at the Blackstone Theatre in Chicago. The conversation takes place in Mr. Williams' room at the Blackstone Hotel.

  • Susan Brownmiller discusses her book "Against Our Will"

    Oct. 23, 1975

    In Susan Brownmiller's book, "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape," Brownmiller shows her audience how and why rape is a crime of one's mind and not one of passion. According to Brownmiller, rape is man's dominance over a woman.

  • Susan Brownell Anthony

    Susan Brownell Anthony discusses her book "The Ghost in My Life"

    Oct. 29, 1971

    Ms. Anthony, the grand-niece of Susan B. Anthony, comments on the women's liberation movement, her personal political life and her view of Christian life.

  • Sandra Cisneros

    Studs Terkel sits down with Sandra Cisneros to discuss her new book of poetry

    Dec. 21, 1992

    Sandra Cisneros sits down with Studs Terkel and provides behind the scenes commentary on poems from her new book "My Wicked Wicked Ways." She provides an enlightening history to them. "Curtains," "Velorio," "Arturo Burro," "I Told Susan Reyna," "Traficante," "In a redneck bar down the street," The Poet Reflects on Her Solitary Fate," "His Story," "Letter to Ilona from the South of France," "New Year's Eve" have been removed due to copyright restrictions.

  • Charles V. Hamilton

    Studs Terkel interviews Professor Charles V. Hamilton on his book written with Stokely Carmichael entitled "Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America" ; part 1

    Nov. 21, 1967

    Using the backdrop of James Baldwin's "Nobody Knows My Name" and Baldwin's feelings that Blacks were ashamed of where they came from, Terkel interviews Professor and Chairman of the Political Science Department of Roosevelt University on his book coauthored with Stokely Carmichael entitled" Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America". Hamilton states that Blacks were taught to hate themselves and leave school believing that. Institutional racism and the deliberate oppression it creates, holds blacks back. Blacks are left out of crucial decision making processes that concern them.

  • Studs Terkel discusses the global status of theater with Croatian director Vlado Habunek

    Apr. 25, 1962

    Vlado Habunek, the Director of The Croatian National Theater, also a teacher at the University of Zagreb and board member for the Debrovnik Summer Festival discusses how all arts are seeking new revelations with Studs Terkel. Terkel asks Habunek to compare American Actors with Croatian actors because they are subsidized by the state. He sees Croatian actors as too secure and admires the ambition of American actors. The fact that theater reflects life and life is difficult begins a discussion on the status of theater today.

  • Richard Speck

    Studs Terkel discusses "Born to Raise Hell" with authors Jack Altman and Dr. Marvin Ziporyn

    1967

    Studs Terkel discusses the murder of eight student nurses in 1966 at the hands of Richard Speck with the authors of "Born to Raise Hell", newsman Jack Altman and Speck's psychiatrist Dr. Marvin Ziporyn. Altman sees Speck's public and private image as being quite different. When asked to smile for the cameras Speck obeyed authority and did and was labeled in the press as a monster when in reality he blocked out the murders and was disgusted by his actions. Dr.

  • Inside ABC

    Sterling "Red" Quinlan talks about his book "Inside ABC: the American Broadcasting Company's rise to power"

    Oct. 18, 1979

    Sterling "Red" Quinlan discusses his book "Inside ABC: the American Broadcasting Company's rise to power" published in 1979. Sterling "Red" Quinlan was a pioneering Chicago TV executive that worked for ABC (which later became WLS-Ch. 7), WFLD-TV, WTTW (Chicago's public television station) and founding member of the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

  • Stanislaw Pchenikov and Valentin Nikolaevich Pluchek discuss theater with Studs Terkel ; part 2

    Jan. 19, 1962

    Studs Terkel discusses Russian theater with Stanislaw Pchenikov and Theater director Valentin Nikolaevich Pluchek.

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