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Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson

Bushkin, Henry

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsTelevisionGeneral Drama

Publisher Price: $16.99

ISBN10: 0544334485
ISBN13: 9780544334489
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Oct 7 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

A close look at how show business power corrupts . . . The dishiest read of the year. - Janet Maslin, Ten Favorite Books of the Year, New York Times Here's Johnny! Probably everyone in America knows the phrase, whether they watched every episode of The Tonight Show or none because they had to go to bed early on school nights. From 1962 to 1992, Johnny Carson and his Tonight Show dominated the American consciousness.

Henry Bushkin was Carson's best friend and lawyer during that period, and his behind-the-scenes memoir is a tautly rendered and remarkably nuanced portrait of Carson, revealing not only how he truly was, but why. Bushkin explains why Carson, a voracious (and very talented) womanizer, felt he always had to be married; why he couldn't visit his son in the hospital and wouldn't attend his mother's funeral; and much more. This Johnny Carson biography is by turns shocking, poignant, and uproarious -- written with a novelist's eye for detail, a screenwriter's ear for dialogue, and a knack for comic timing that Carson himself would relish.

A fascinating book about a complex man. -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Like The Tonight Show, the book has many a merry moment . . . [Johnny Carson] was also one of a kind, and is missed. This book brings a bit of him back. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A People magazine Top Ten Book of the Year

This intimate biography goes beyond the television icon to reveal the complex man behind the desk.

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