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Studs Terkel, the author, radio host and oral historian who died Friday in Chicago at age 96, liked to say, "I don't do interviews. ...

"Waking Giant" is a terrific introduction of succinct length to a period in our history, the time between the end of the age of the founding fathers and the beginning of the Civil War era, that was once ignored.

Three sets of researchers recently concluded that professors have virtually no impact on the political views and ideology of their students.

It is, in fact, impossible to separate Studs Terkel's political vision from the contours of his oral history.