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Studs Terkel

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Redemption, he says: that's what this book and all the others are really about. His favourite interview was with CP Ellis, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who ended up fighting for the union rights of black janitors alongside his partner, an African-American woman. "Anybody can be redeemed. I've seen it."
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Oliver Burkeman, on Terkel's views about Will the Circle be Unbroken? and his other books, in "Voice of America" in The Guardian (1 March 2002)]

 
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