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Carson the Magnificent / Bill Zehme with Mike Thomas.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.4.C28 Z44 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zehme, Bill
- Thomas, Mike, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carson, Johnny, 1925-2005.
- Carson, Johnny.
- Television talk show hosts--United States--Biography.
- Television talk show hosts.
- Television personalities--United States--Biography.
- Television personalities.
- Tonight show (Television program).
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 2024.
- Summary:
- Twenty years in the making, Zemhe and Thomas's book examines "one of the most inscrutable figures in entertainment history: a man who brought so much joy and laughter to so many millions but was himself exceedingly shy and private. Zehme traces Carson's rise from a magic-obsessed Nebraska boy to a Navy ensign in World War II to a burgeoning radio and TV personality to, eventually, host of The Tonight Show--which he transformed, along with the entirety of American popular culture, over the next three decades-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Tiptoeing up the mountain
- There will be a tomorrow
- Kind of like television roulette
- A tight suitcase
- It's all in the timing
- The difference between love and lust
- A gesture from God
- And so it has come to this
- Epilogue: Like the widow at a funeral.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781451645279
- 1451645279
- OCLC:
- 1420449682
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