Studs Terkel on Democracy Now! today for the hour:

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/1423258

Legendary Radio Broadcaster and Oral Historian Studs Terkel on the Iraq War, NSA Domestic Spy Program, Mahalia Jackson, James Baldwin, the Labor Movement and His New Memoir "Touch and Go"


We are broadcasting from Chicago, the hometown of our very special guest for the hour -- broadcaster, author, social historian, American legend, Studs Terkel. He has just come out with his long-awaited memoir. It's called “Touch and Go." We are broadcasting from Chicago, the hometown of our very special guest for the hour -- broadcaster, author, social historian, American legend, Studs Terkel. Born in 1912 in New York City, Studs Terkel moved with his family to Chicago at the age of ten where he spent most of his life. Over the years he has worked as an activist, a civil servant, a labor organizer, a radio DJ and a television actor. But he is best known as a Chicago radio personality and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

For forty-five years, Studs Terkel spent an hour each weekday on his nationally syndicated radio show interviewing the famous and the not-so-famous. With his unique style, he created portraits of everyday life in America. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters, the George Polk Career Award and the presidential National Humanities Medal.

Today at the age of 95, Studs Terkel is still speaking out. Two weeks ago, Studs wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times criticizing the Bush administration's warrantless spy program and Congressional efforts to immunize the large telecom companies that took part. And he has just come out with his long-awaited memoir. It's called “Touch and Go." Studs Terkel joins me for the hour here from Chicago.