When Studs Terkel opens his newspaper these days he turns to the obituaries, because Studs is keeping track. At age 89, the man who transformed the story telling of the common man into a high art form of oral history has written about Working, and War, and Race and growing old. Now he’s written the one book he says he never thought he’d write, a book about dying. But the people who tell their stories to Studs are very much alive. Some are characters from his earlier encounters, and there are new faces too, young and old, whose lives have been shaped by proximity to death. They lead us to the same, revelatory place Studs Terkel has always taken us, to a deeper understanding of ourselves.
Guests:
Studs Terkel, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?”