Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel, a cigar-smoking American radio broadcaster and amateur historian, is best known for his plodding 1000-page [small print] book
Working
1
. Blacklisted for his leftist beliefs during the Age of McCarthyism, Terkel later sued
error
to stop the communication conglomerate's unauthorized release of phone records to the newly formed
error
, a practice instigated covertly during the United States government's no-holds-barred pursuit of the well-dressed, charismatic gangster
dillinger-is-dead
and his gang of miscreants.
1 An painfully dry and seemingly random series of occupationally-oriented interviews.
