"The Good War"
by Studs Terkel
1984World War, 1939-1945Personal narrativesAmerican Personal narrativesAmerikanenTweede Wereldoorlog
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Studs Terkel, a master of the interview, talks with a wide variety of people and learns about their opinions and experiences regarding World War Two - how it affected the lives of those who lived or were born during that period of human history.
Themes & subjects
World War, 1939-1945Personal narrativesAmerican Personal narrativesAmerikanenTweede WereldoorlogAmeričani
First published 1984Characters & people
Setting
United States
About the author
Studs Terkel
1912 – 2008
Studs Terkel was born Louis Terkel in New York on May 16, 1912. The family moved to Chicago in 1922 and opened a rooming house. From 1926 to 1936 they ran another rooming house, the Wells-Grand Hotel at Wells Street and Grand Avenue. Terkel credited his knowledge of the world to the tenants who gathered in the lobby of the hotel and the people who congregated in nearby Bughouse Square a meeting place for workers, labor organizers, dissidents, the unemployed, and religious fanatics of many persuasions. Terkel attended University of Chicago and received a law degree in 1934. After a brief stint with the civil service in Washington D.C., he returned to Chicago and worked with the WPA Writers P…
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