The American Dream: “Situation Fluid” with Studs Terkel

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Radio personality, writer, and social commentator Studs Terkel gives us a fresh look at "The American Dream" through the eyes of people he interviewed for his book, The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream. Recorded in 1988, Terkel’s lively views cut through the usual bland rhetoric about the social and political scene of the time and give us a new perspective on our own time. He calls it the way he sees it and his candor refreshes the mind and stirs the heart. There is lots of good, old-fashioned wisdom here for anyone wanting a more direct view of the signs of the times, both then and now. (hosted by Michael Toms)

Bio

Louis "Studs" Terkel (1912 –2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War. He is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.

He is the author of:

• The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream (Pantheon 1988)
• The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (The New Press 1997)

To learn more about the work of Studs Terkel go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel.

Host: Michael Toms            Interview Date: 10/20/1988            Program Number: 2113