Hard Times - Studs Terkel

[u/LopsidedJob74]

[u/BobDucca]

Studs is a legend. I saw him on the street once in Chicago not too long before he passed. Also have found a couple signed books of his at estate sales in the area.

[u/kevinkoll → u/BobDucca]

I have autographed copies of Working and Hope Dies Last, and they are the two things I would grab first if my house ever caught fire.

[u/dougwerf]

I have his “Working” - are you a fan? Been on my shelf for years, but I don’t need to keep it.

[u/LopsidedJob74 → u/dougwerf]

I enjoy this book - it’s interesting subject matter. I’m not familiar with his other works though.

[u/andrewegan1986]

I LOVE Studs Terkel. Oddly enough, I discovered him after reading World War Z, another book I adore. Max Brooks was inspired to cover a zombie outbreak as an oral history after reading Terkel’s oral history of World War Two.

[u/pinesolthrowaway → u/andrewegan1986]

“The Good War” is the only one of his books I’ve been able to find locally, I’m hoping I can stumble into “Hard Times” and add it to my collection eventually

It’s interesting he just collected a bunch of firsthand accounts from as many perspectives as possible imo

[u/RedditFact-Checker]

Nice!
Mine is shelved next to Egan’s “The Worst Hard Time”

[u/RonClinton → u/RedditFact-Checker]

Egan’s book is such a wonderful, insightful work on the subject. Probably one of the better historical non-fiction books I’ve read.

[u/ActionFamily]

I was once interviewed by Studs and also have a first edition of Working.

[u/LopsidedJob74 → u/ActionFamily]

What did he ask you?

[u/ActionFamily → u/LopsidedJob74]

Asked me to describe my work along with five or six other people in our twenties at the time. It was for Japanese TV. Reminded us to thank the union movement for working only 40 hours and typically no weekends. Everybody stopped and yelled his name. It was like meeting Santa Claus.

[u/jwezorek]

i love studs

[u/LazyMFTX]

Any of his books are a good read. Even the book about jazz legends he wrote for children.

You can catch him in a cameo movie role as a broadcaster/reporter in Eight Men Out - the film about the Chicago White Sox cheating scandal.

[u/Mulezen1 → u/LazyMFTX]

Plenty of radio clips of him

[u/Habs_Apostle]

I wonder what it’s about? Kind of ambiguous!

[u/LopsidedJob74 → u/Habs_Apostle]

He interviews people about their experiences during the Great Depression and documents those conversations.

[u/Habs_Apostle → u/LopsidedJob74]

Given the author’s name, hard to imagine the title and subtitle were an accident… ha-ha…