Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My TimesThis memoir cuts across worlds, years and the vast spectrum of people that Terkel has known, from workers to famous stars, from Nobel Prize winners to ordinary folk ... Terkel uses some of the methods that have made his radio programs so famous. He cuts from a visit to Chief Luthuli in South Africa to a memoir of the McCarthy period, from growing up among the petty gangsters of Chicago in the thirties to confronting the bigger gangsters of our political life in the sixties, from acting in a radio soap opera to discussing film with Fellini ... |
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Page 51
... knew , the old fighter had never spoken into a microphone . " Sound of the City " was a midnight radio program on which I worked nightly with Vince Garrity . The station manager , Red Quinlan , had the idea . " What about the blacklist ...
... knew , the old fighter had never spoken into a microphone . " Sound of the City " was a midnight radio program on which I worked nightly with Vince Garrity . The station manager , Red Quinlan , had the idea . " What about the blacklist ...
Page 215
... knew little of the city they were visiting . Vince knew it , not in spades , perhaps , but certainly in blue . He knew every cop who stood guard at the Amphitheatre , the convention's arena . What's more to the point , they all knew him ...
... knew little of the city they were visiting . Vince knew it , not in spades , perhaps , but certainly in blue . He knew every cop who stood guard at the Amphitheatre , the convention's arena . What's more to the point , they all knew him ...
Page 291
... knew one another by name , by face . Old friends , old struggles . Today , there were so many thousands , I hardly knew anybody out there . They were from all over . It was great . " Poignance and a quiet joy . Uh oh , there goes that ...
... knew one another by name , by face . Old friends , old struggles . Today , there were so many thousands , I hardly knew anybody out there . They were from all over . It was great . " Poignance and a quiet joy . Uh oh , there goes that ...
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