Perseus Academic: P.S. by Studs Terkel

Preface: Among My Souvenirs ix
Part I
Scaring the Daylights Out of Ma Perkins, 1974 3
Dreamland, 1977 13
James Baldwin, 1961 27
“City of Hands Was Born in Mud and Fire,” Financial
Times, 2005 61
Janus: Some Portraits from Memory 67
Vince Garrity, 1974 68
Frank Tuller, in Memoriam, 1975 79
Chester Kolar 84
Stanley Cygan 86
Who's Got the Ballot?—Red Kelly, 1975 87
Ya Gotta Fight City Hall, 1973 101
If You Were God 107
Part II
Nighthawks, 1971 111
A Christmas Memory, 1973 113 Uptown 121
Suffer the Little Children, 1980 122
A Family Bar, 1979 126
Aaron Barkham 133
A Voice from a “Hey, You” Neighborhood, 1973 135
Part III
E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, 1978 147
A Gathering of Survivors, 1971–72 169
Born to Live, 1961 199
Acknowledgments 227
Sources 229