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Johnny Carson
by Henry Bushkin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0544217624
- ISBN 13
- 9780544217621
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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CA$13.79CA$9.65
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About This Item
New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York. 2013. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O address label on the FFFP. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Near Fine: NOT Price Clipped ($28.00); light bumping to head and tail; small nick on the top of the rear panel; light rubbing to panels. Light gray paper over boards with dark gray overlay on the spine; bright gilt lettering on the spine. 294 pp 8vo. The author was Carson's personal legal advisor, fixer, confident, and close friend for 18 years. As the King of Late Night TV, Carson socialized with the famous personalities of TV and movies and kept his two personalities hidden except for the author who saw it all. This book is a revealing portrait of Carson, revealing not only how he truly was, but why. This book unveils the hidden Carson and the raucous star-studded world he ruled. A clean very presentable copy
Synopsis
A revealing and incisive account of the King of Late Night at the height of his fame and power, by his lawyer, wingman, fixer, and closest confidant From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show and permeated the American consciousness. In the ’70s and ’80s he was the country’s highest-paid entertainer and its most enigmatic. He was notoriously inscrutable, as mercurial (and sometimes cruel) off-camera as he was charming and hilarious onstage. During the apex of his reign, Carson’s longtime lawyer and best friend was Henry Bushkin, who now shows us Johnny Carson with a breathtaking clarity and depth that nobody else could. From the moment in 1970 when Carson hired Bushkin (who was just twenty-seven) until the moment eighteen years later when they parted ways, the author witnessed and often took part in a string of escapades that still retain their power to surprise and fascinate us. One of Bushkin’s first assignments was helping Carson break into a posh Manhattan apartment to gather evidence of his wife’s infidelity. More than once, Bushkin helped his client avoid entanglements with the mob. Of course, Carson’s adventures weren’t all so sordid. He hosted Ronald Reagan’s inaugural concert as a favor to the new president, and he prevented a drunken Dean Martin from appearing onstage that evening. Carson socialized with Frank Sinatra, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Kirk Douglas, and dozens of other boldface names who populate this atmospheric and propulsive chronicle of the King of Late Night and his world. But this memoir isn’t just dishy. It 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 loathed small talk even as he excelled at it; why he couldn’t visit his son in the hospital and wouldn’t attend his mother’s funeral; and much more. Bushkin’s account 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. Johnny Carson unveils not only the hidden Carson, but also the raucous, star-studded world he ruled.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014819
- Title
- Johnny Carson
- Author
- Henry Bushkin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0544217624
- ISBN 13
- 9780544217621
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Johnny Carson, The Tonight Show, TV Personality, Late Night Television, Talk Show Host, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, Frank Sinatra,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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