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The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With the People Who Make Them

The Spectator: Talk About Movies and Plays With the People Who Make Them Hardcover - 1999

by TERKEL, Studs

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This major new work includes more than 40 never-before-published interviews in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian elicits frank, funny, and surprising conversations about the past half century of dramatic arts.

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New York: The New Press, 1999. Hardcover. Introduction by Garry Wills. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 364pp. Fine/fine. A tight, superb first edition of this thick collection of Terkel's interviews with film folks, inscribed and signed by him huge and bold in black marker on the title page: "to Doug -- / Studs Terkel.
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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/1999, Page 1891
  • Entertainment Weekly, 11/19/1999, Page 139
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/1999, Page 1213
  • Library Journal, 09/15/1999, Page 86
  • New York Times, 09/26/1999, Page 28
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/30/1999, Page 67

About the author

Studs Terkel (1912-2008) was an award-winning author and radio broadcaster. He is the author of Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession; Division Street: America, Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century; Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times; "The Good War" An Oral History of World War II; Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do; The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century; American Dreams: Lost and Found; The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater; Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression; Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith; Giants of Jazz; Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times; And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey; Touch and Go: A Memoir; P.S.: Further Thoughts from a Lifetime of Listening; and Studs Terkel's Chicago, all published by The New Press. He was a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and a recipient of a Presidential National Humanities Medal, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a George Polk Career Award, and the National Book Critics Circle 2003 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award.

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