60 Minutes: Minute by Minute...

by Don Hewitt

"Minute by Minute" is the fabulous story of "60 Minutes," on screen and behind the scenes, as only Don Hewitt, its creator and executive producer, can tell it. In "Minute by Minute," the most important and revealing book yet on TV and TV news, Hewitt brings the entire story to life. With characteristic candor and pungency, Hewitt puts us on the other side of the TV screen as correspondents pursue the news and conduct the interviews that make up his personal hall of fame - memorable performances by the leading lights of stage and screen and sports and politics, by con men and gunmen and just plain folks. Here’s how Harry and Dan, Ed and Diane, Mike and Morley made the show that told America "What Really Happened at the Gulf of Tonkin," exposed "The Other Face of the IRA," and helped get an innocent man named Lenell Geter out of jail in Texas. Here’s how a stellar cast and crew brought us the stars and the names in the Liz and Dick and LBJ, Woody Allen and the Shah of Iran, Betty Ford and Jesse Jackson, Katharine Hepburn, Sir Laurence Olivier, and half a hundred more.

223 pages, Hardcover

First published November 12, 1985

About the author

Don Hewitt created the CBS newsmagazine broadcast 60 Minutes in 1968. He was the executive producer of the show until June 2004.

Hewitt began his career with CBS in 1948 as an associate director.