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With Kurt Jacobsen Studs Terkel, born in New York City in 1912, moved at the age of eleven to Chicago where his family, among other things, ran a boarding house. He earned a law degree at the University of Chicago in the inauspicious year of 1934. Law did not appeal to him anyway; show business,…

Before going further, perhaps you could share a bit of your political background and career with our audience. Well, I joined the Labour Party at the tender age of fifteen as a schoolboy. I came from a very conservative background-my father was a serving officer in the British Army and both he and my mother…