Alan Wieder comes to New York City to talk about Studs Terkel
February 20, 2024
Wednesday, September 28 at The Workmen’s Circle, 247 W. 37th Street, 6-8:00pm
Thursday, September 29 at Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street, 7-9:30pm
Category: Monthly Review Press Blog
Cuba: Its Hidden History and the U.S. Empire: 2 MRP books reviewed in International Socialism
February 20, 2024
A Hidden History of the Cuban Revolution: How the Working Class Shaped the Guerrillas’ Victory
By Steve Cushion
Cuba and the U.S. Empire: A Chronological History
By Jane Franklin
The last year and a half have left no doubt that the history of the Cuban Revolution will need to be revisited and probably rewritten. From the moment that Raúl Castro and Barack Obama met, and the American president visited the island, everything changed.
Alan Wieder on Baltimore’s “The Marc Steiner Show” talks about (what else?) Studs Terkel!
February 20, 2024
Recently, MRP author Alan Wieder talked to longtime radio host Marc Steiner of WEAA 88.9 FM about his new book, Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
Imperialism in the 21st Century: “novel forms, old problems”: International Socialism review
February 20, 2024
The significance of John Smith’s book lies in his powerful critique of mainstream economics and official statistics as he attempts a renewal of dependency theory. Mobilising Marxist value theory to this end he argues that the Global South’s formal independence masks an abiding economic and political subordination to the imperialist powers and powerful Northern capitals. The book’s impact is reflected in the critical commentary that it has provoked, including on Michael Roberts’s blog.
Want to understand the Cuban revolution? “Start in Santiago cemetery,” says Nancy Stout
February 20, 2024
Recently, Nancy Stout, author of One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution, was interviewed for an article in the Smithsonian magazine, titled, “How Cuba Remembers Its Revolutionary Past and Present”
“Live issue on the eco-left”: Facing the Anthropocene reviewed by Socialist Resistance
February 20, 2024
This book is the best I have seen, from a Marxist point of view, on the issue of the Anthropocene and its implications for life on this planet. It combines a clear warning of the scale of the crisis we face with a well informed exposition of what the Anthropocene is and why we need to take it seriously. ¶ It is an unequivocal declaration the Anthropocene is here, at that its implications, in terms life on this planet, including our own, are dangerous in the extreme, and that it now determines the framework in which the struggle to save the biosphere of the planet as a habitable space now takes place.
“Studs Terkel: listener and humanitarian” via Radio New Zealand
February 20, 2024
Alan Wieder, author of Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation, talks with Wallace Chapman on Radio New Zealand‘s weekly show, “Sunday Morning”
“Wieder says that wherever Terkel was, he believed people had something to say.
Terkel captured Chicago’s racism in the ’70s through an interview with a policeman for his book Working: People who talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do…”
Gerald Horne on C-SPAN: “1776 NOT a great leap forward for Africans or Native Americans…”
February 20, 2024
On October 2, Gerald Horne, author of several books, including Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic and Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow, sat down with Peter Slen on C-SPAN‘s “In Depth” to discuss his work and the history of the United States
John Marciano: Commemorating the Vietnam War shapes public view on current U.S. wars
February 20, 2024
John Marciano, author of The American War in Vietnam: Crime or Commemoration?, talks with journalist and author Sasha Lilley on radio KPFA‘s “Against the Grain” about the horrors wreaked on Vietnam during the American war there, and how the U.S. government would like us to remember them now
“Studs Terkel—Interpreter of America” via Counterpunch
February 20, 2024
“…In the world of the word, Studs Terkel was a multi-talented man. He was an actor, a playwright, an organizer, a deejay, and an interviewer, among other things. Mostly, however, as Alan Wieder makes clear in his newly-published biography of Terkel, he was an ‘interpreter of America.’ His ability to not only listen, but also to ask the right questions of an interviewee, made his radio shows and books of oral history not only informative and enjoyable; those interviews became the standard to which others strived to achieve. It was as if Terkel had a certain magic once the tape recorder was turned on…..”