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Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
by Cavett, Dick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - VeryGood/VeryGood
- ISBN 10
- 0805091955
- ISBN 13
- 9780805091953
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
NY: Times Books, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. Collectible - VeryGood/VeryGood. 6.25"x9.5" 279 indexed pages. First printing. Red boards w/silver letters on spine. Jacket design by David Shoemaker. Jacket photo by Roger Prigent. Author photo by Barbara Friedman. Spine straight, bindint tight. Pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Light moisture stain to back board. Bleed thru to back of bottom DJ. Minor shelf wear to DJ. The legendary talk show host's humorous reminiscences and pointed commentary on the great figures he has known, and culture and politics today.
For 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 Nebrask...Source: Publisher.
For 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 Nebrask...Source: Publisher.
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- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13641
- Title
- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets
- Author
- Cavett, Dick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible - VeryGood
- Jacket Condition
- VeryGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0805091955
- ISBN 13
- 9780805091953
- Publisher
- Times Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2010
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