Hewitt, Don 1922-2009

Tell me a story : fifty years and 60 minutes in television / Don Hewitt. - New York : Public Affairs, c2001. - viii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue 1 (12)
Forty-five Minutes from Broadway
13 (8)
Oh, What a Lovely War
21 (22)
The Emerald City
43 (26)
New Frontiers
69 (16)
The Battle of the TV Executives
85 (22)
60 Minutes of Prime Time
107 (12)
What Makes a Great Story
119 (16)
Hitting Our Stride
135 (26)
Corporate Politics and Holy Wars
161 (18)
Razzle Dazzle
179 (12)
Big Tobacco
191 (20)
Striking the Right Balance
211 (12)
News Business, Show Business, and Nobody's Business
223 (18)
The Televised Future
241 (14)
Epilogue 255 (4)
The 60 Minutes Honor Roll 259 (2)
Index 261

The producer for "60 Minutes" recounts his early experiences and his more than fifty years with CBS, including the first broadcasts of political conventions, the Kennedy-Nixon debates, and the events portrayed in the film "The Insider."

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60 minutes (Television program)
60 minutos (programa de televisión)


Television producers and directors--United States--Biography.
Productores y directores de televisión --Estados Unidos
Noticieros de televisión --Estados Unidos

PN 1992.4 / H611t 2001

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