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Impresario : the life and times of Ed Sullivan
- Title
- Impresario : the life and times of Ed Sullivan / James Maguire.
- Author
- Maguire, James, 1959-
- Publication
- New York : Billboard Books, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- vii, 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "For more than twenty years, from 1948 to 1971, fifty-five million viewers watched The Ed Sullivan Show religiously every Sunday night. Everyone who was anyone appeared--the Beatles and Elvis, of course, and Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, and Elizabeth Taylor, plus public figures such as Fidel Castro, David Ben-Gurion, and Martin Luther King, Jr. More than thirty years later, the program remains a pop-culture icon. But despite Ed Sullivan's prominence, little was known about the private man ... until now. Impresario reveals what the Sullivan viewers never saw: nasty, hot-tempered, craven, yet also capable of high ideals and, above all, hugely ambitious. At a time when Americans are looking back, The Ed Sullivan Show stands out as a shining example of television during the golden era. Impresario lets readers look behind the screen to see the man who made it happen."--Publisher's website.
- A perfect mirror of its time, The Ed Sullivan Show ran from 1948 to 1971, echoing this period's every chapter; the birth of television, the conformist 1950's, the dawn of the rock era - featuring a hip-shaking Elvis and the Beatles' U.S. debut - and finally, the tumultuous late 1960s.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Books.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-317) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue -- pt. 1. A showman's education -- ch. 1. Twins -- ch. 2. Two loves -- ch. 3. The porno graphic -- ch. 4. Broadway -- ch. 5. Café society -- ch. 6. Hollywood -- ch. 7. The war years -- pt. 2. The birth of television -- ch. 8. A temporary job -- ch. 9. "Really big show" -- ch. 10. David vs. Goliath -- ch. 11. Stardom -- ch. 12. Elvis -- ch. 13. The globetrotter -- ch. 14. The times they are a changin' -- ch. 15. Beatlemania -- ch. 16. The generation gap -- ch. 17. Ripped asunder -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 0823079627
- 9780823079629
- LCCN
- 2005933953
- 9780823079629
- OCLC
- ocm69173229
- 69173229
- SCSB-14707383
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library