Jan Herman had a nice piece on Studs back in December:

Although "Hope Dies Last" has been described as a summation of his long career, Terkel sounds at 91 like someone just starting out. "I thought, why not a book about all those who have had hope, and have taken their beatings and paid their dues — but as a result of what they've done, something has happened," he says. The book is about "the prophetic minority ... people who we call activists. Who are imbued with a sort of hope and craziness, you know — who some way or another hope our society, or the world, will be a more decent place to live in. They imbue all the rest of us with hope."

A man of his time as perhaps no other, Terkel cites Feb. 15, 2003, as a special day. "I celebrate that day," he says, "because 10 million people all over the world came out against the preemptive strike [against Iraq]. And then there was silence, because for three days it looked like W. was the liberator of Iraq. Then, well, we know what happened."

He adds: "If ever there were a time for these people, who I've admired for years, this is it. There was Tom Paine, there were the abolitionists. In the '60s there were the African-Americans who fought for civil rights, the kids against the war. Who were a minority, remember; the jocks beat the shit out of them at first and then joined them later. That's what I mean by a prophetic minority."

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