How Sweet It Was: A Pictoral Commentary with 1435 Photos (1966, Shulman &Youman)

Description: How Sweet It Was: A Pictoral Commentary with 1435 Photos (1966, Shulman &Youman). Condition is Like New. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. HOW SWEET IT WAS Television: a pictorial commentary with 1435 photographs By Arthur Shulman and Roger Youman Here is television - with all its triumphs and all its disasters. The 1,435 photographs reproduced in HOW SWEET IT WAS have been collected over a period of two decades; many of them are one-of-a-kind. Taken as a whole, they provide an unparalleled historical panorama of the medium that has come to dominate America's leisure time, with its changes, trends, and progress (or lack of it). At the same time, it serves as a fascinating commentary on recent American history and taste. This volume presents a definitive history of television, in text and pictures, that every reader will find nostalgic, amusing, and provocative. The authors, both longtime staff members of TV Guide magazine, cover every significant personality and event that has appeared on television since 1946. HOW SWEET IT WAS is divided into twelve chapters: the great comedians, the personalities, music situation comedies, specials, drama, action-adventure, westerns, panel and quiz shows, daytime programming, including, of course, soap operas, children's shows, and news and public affairs. Here are the great performers and personalities: Milton Berle, Pinky Lee, Garry Moore, Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Kate Smith, Arthur Godfrey, Lawrence Welk, Liberace. Here are the memorable events: the Moiseyev Dancers on "The Ed Sullivan Show," the first telecast of a World Series, the original "Marty" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight," the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, the McCarthy and Kefauver hearings, the space shots, the "Great Debates" between Kennedy and Nixon. Here are the all-time favorite programs: "I Love Lucy," Bonanza, "What's My Line", "Batman," "The untouchables,"The Perry Como Show," "As the World Turns." Here are the curiosities: present-day starts such as Johnny Carson, Adam West, and Robert Culp appearing in bit parts and emceeing the most forgettable of quiz shows, the Los Angeles Rams singing on "Shindig"; John Glenn as a quiz-whow contestant. As the authors write in their introduction 'You will find programs you remember with affection, and others you recall with distaste, programs that lasted for years, others that disappeared after a few weeks; significant events from television's history, and trivial moments, brilliantly talented performers, and inept clods. Some of the photographs will make you smile fondly, some will make yhou laugh derisively, some will bring back solemn recollections, some will draw a complete blank." Arthur Shulman and Roger Youlman thanks to their authoritative background and encyclopedic knowledge of the field, have written a book that will prove indispensable as the definitive history of television and as a document that throws surprising light on what the United States and the world were like during two hectic decades. Because of their unique collection of photographs HOW SWEET IT WAS will also provide endless hours of fascinating browsing. 450 pages, 1,435 illustrations, completely indexed. Jacked design by Jacques Chazaud. Bonanza Books a division of Crown Publishers, Inc. 0-517-081350 Copyright MCMLXVI Shorecrest, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-24164 This edition publised by Bonanza Books, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc., by arrangement with Shorecrest, Inc.

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