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
Ma Bell
to stop the communication conglomerate's unauthorized release of phone records to the newly formed
FBI, a practice instigated covertly during the United States government's no-holds-barred pursuit of the well-dressed, charismatic gangster
John Herbert Dillinger
and his gang of miscreants.
1 An painfully dry and seemingly random series of occupationally-oriented interviews.