Remembering Studs Terkel

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If only Studs could have held on until Election Day 2008 to see history made before his eyes one more time.

The windows to the soul of Louis “Studs” Terkel – tired, sometimes sad but never bitter – glimpsed the American parade for nearly a century; from the Roaring 20s of gangland Chicago on through the Great Depression and the Good War to the genuine possibility that a black man might become the president of the United States.

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