{"product_id":"talk-show-confrontations-pointed-commentary-and-off-screen-secrets-9780312610524","title":"Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There's never been a talk show to equal Dick Cavett's... It's a pleasure to relive much of it in this wonderful book.\"--Woody Allen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation's most famous personalities on his late-night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear Cavett's best tales, as he recounts great moments with the legendary entertainers who crossed his path and offers his own trenchant commentary on contemporary American culture and politics. Pull up a chair and listen to Cavett's stories about one-upping Bette Davis, testifying on behalf of John Lennon, confronting Richard Nixon, scheming with John Updike, befriending William F. Buckley, and palling around with Groucho Marx. Sprinkled in are tales of his childhood in Nebraska in the 1940s and 1950s, where he honed his sense of comic timing and his love of magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCavett is also a wry cultural observer, looking at America today and pointing out the foibles that we so often fail to notice about ourselves. And don't even get him started on politicians. A generation of Americans ended their evenings in Dick Cavett's company;\u003ci\u003e Talk Show\u003c\/i\u003e is a way to welcome him back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/22\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312610524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Dick Cavett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635928166556,"sku":"9780312610524","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2de3d116-d0b4-4d49-bf2a-deb8af02f7c6.jpg?v=1603840918","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/talk-show-confrontations-pointed-commentary-and-off-screen-secrets-9780312610524","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}