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Tell Me A Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television
by
Don Hewitt
In more than a half century with CBS News, Don Hewitt has been responsible for many of the greatest moments in television history, including the first broadcasts of political conventions in 1948; the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960; and, most spectacularly, for the past 34 years, 60 Minutes, for which he has been the creator, executive producer, and driving force of the...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
October 3rd 2002
by PublicAffairs
(first published April 15th 2001)
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Highly readable. Supports the author's claim that what has made "60 Minutes" first-rate for so many years is the writing and not the visuals. I would have rated the book higher if I were into journalism (either print or broadcast).
Great on the early history of TV, and even before that to his experiences in London during WWII - the fact that even then Americans behaved as the "ugly American" and the Brits couldn't wait for us to go home was enlightening.
Hewitt loved the strip clubs in his youth.
60 minutes only came about after he was demoted off the Cronkite nightly news and did a few documentaries. Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner were his first two anchors (a term he shares the invention of). He gives huge credit to the...more
Hewitt loved the strip clubs in his youth.
60 minutes only came about after he was demoted off the Cronkite nightly news and did a few documentaries. Mike Wallace and Harry Reasoner were his first two anchors (a term he shares the invention of). He gives huge credit to the...more
Picked it up for trip to San An...very readable...interesting hx of early broadcast journalism on the way to the concept and development of 60 Minutes...
Not the greatest book, but it is an interesting tale about the history of 60 Minutes.
If you like 60 minutes, this is very interesting to read.
This was just unbelievably amazing!
I could not put this book down. It was so moving and inspiring that now, either I am a journalist or I am nothing. To have lived in the times of Don Hewitt and Walter Cronkite and all these great journalist! Good times those would have been.
This was exhilarating to read. :D
I could not put this book down. It was so moving and inspiring that now, either I am a journalist or I am nothing. To have lived in the times of Don Hewitt and Walter Cronkite and all these great journalist! Good times those would have been.
This was exhilarating to read. :D
Dec 08, 2009
Michael
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
biography,
politics-history-econ
This memoir from the late creator/producer of 60 Minutes is packed with great stories and peppered with insight into news, journalism, entertainment, radio, television, politics, etc. I loved it.
May 07, 2013
Brian Dempsey
marked it as to-read
Jan 11, 2013
Hania
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
biography,
non-fiction
Oct 24, 2012
Megan
marked it as to-read
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Shelves:
television,
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