Also, Eight Forty-Eight’s Richard Steele hosted a show with Quentin Young, Jaime Kalven and Alex Kotlowitz that basically featured caller’s memories of Studs. You can find that here:

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_848.aspx?episode=29910

“Part of Mr. Terkel’s wide appeal was that he seemed to be a scrappy liberal in his choice of causes and concerns, but look more closely and it becomes less clear where his liberalism slips into radicalism. Though Mr. Terkel was not a theorist, nearly every one of the positions approvingly intimated by him seem to fit models shaped by Marxist theory; he even wore something red every day to affirm his attachment to the working class.”

His main argument in support of this conclusion is that in “Working,” Terkel attacks capitalism by focusing on subjects who said they were not satisfied by their menial jobs and found them deadening to their spirit. Isn’t that shocking? It doesn’t take a Marxist to point out something that’s self-evident to thinking people. Though such views are apparently still considered anti-capitalist by the establishment, notice how such views are never related in traditional medial or educational curricula? And what’s with criticizing the red-checked shirts as a means of identifying with the working class? He should get his head examined.