<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8123f293-2e4a-4c22-85c9-ad8d575c62b2/C58895B9-45E6-4E85-B946-E45B97AFF49B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20081102/cm_thenation/4379211" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20081102/cm_thenation/4379211" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20081102/cm_thenation/4379211"><P> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/thenation/cm_thenation/storytext/4379211/29722942/SIG=10qa2akrp;_ylt=AvV1EnFuPDBxwerkqW7AY0w__8QF/*http://www.thenation.com"><SPAN id="lw_1225605776_0" class="yshortcuts">The Nation</SPAN></A> -- Oral historian, rabble-rouser and grand old man of the American left, <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/thenation/cm_thenation/storytext/4379211/29722942/SIG=10tq1qcv8;_ylt=AgiHRnIdG4FtJq1ZlsKoLcQ__8QF/*http://www.studsterkel.org/"><SPAN id="lw_1225605776_1" class="yshortcuts">Studs Terkel</SPAN></A> died Friday at 96. From Robert LaFollette to <SPAN id="lw_1225605776_2" class="yshortcuts">Barack Obama</SPAN> he never pulled his punches through the chronicling of five generations of American history. <SPAN id="lw_1225605776_3" class="yshortcuts">Read John Nichols' appreciation</SPAN> of the life and work of a "<A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/thenation/cm_thenation/storytext/4379211/29722942/SIG=130uvl4lc;_ylt=At8aleu02CQ.UoH7jMKQ0.E__8QF/*http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/379041/the_grand_immoderation_of_studs_terkel?rel=hpbox"><SPAN id="lw_1225605776_4" class="yshortcuts">true American hero</SPAN></A>," Bruce Shapiro's tribute to the "<A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/thenation/cm_thenation/storytext/4379211/29722942/SIG=11f804ffo;_ylt=AgF744G0zNCjR7Ve6f6A.6o__8QF/*http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/shapiro"><SPAN id="lw_1225605776_5" class="yshortcuts">vigilant optimist</SPAN></A>" and <SPAN id="lw_1225605776_6" class="yshortcuts">Dennis Kucinich</SPAN>'s eulogy to the "<A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/thenation/cm_thenation/storytext/4379211/29722942/SIG=11ghv91jd;_ylt=ApAvJsaDcVt3CMsrNJMNLco__8QF/*http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/kucinich"><SPAN id="lw_1225605776_7" class="yshortcuts">quintessential American writer</SPAN></A>" and watch the two videos below for a sense of what we've lost. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C58895B9-45E6-4E85-B946-E45B97AFF49B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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