60 Minutes : Fifty Years of Great Stories by Jeff Fager (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-101501135805
ISBN-139781501135804
eBay Product ID (ePID)234477452
Product Key Features
Book Title60 Minutes : Fifty Years of Great Stories
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Television / History & Criticism, Television / General, Journalism
Publication Year2017
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
AuthorJeff Fager
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight43.6 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-025966
ReviewsAs traditional reporting is increasingly being challenged by high-decibel, opinion-drenched media, Fager highlights storytelling that conveys a deep understanding of issues and demonstrates the power of television to inform.
SynopsisThe ultimate inside story of 60 Minutes , the program that has tracked and shaped the biggest moments in post-war American history. From its almost accidental birth in 1968, 60 Minutes has set the standard for broadcast journalism, joining us in our living rooms each Sunday night to surprise us about the world. The show has profiled every major leader, artist, and movement of the past five decades, perfecting the news-making interview and inventing the groundbreaking TV expose. From legendary sit-downs with Richard Nixon in 1968 (in which he promised "to restore respect to the presidency") and Bill Clinton in 1992 (after the first revelations of infidelity) to landmark investigations into the tobacco industry, Lance Armstrong's doping, and the torture of prisoners in Abu-Ghraib, the broadcast has not just reported on our world but changed it too. Now, Executive Producer Jeff Fager pulls back the curtain on how this remarkable journalism is done, taking the reader into the editing room with the show's brilliant producers and beloved correspondents, including hard-charging Mike Wallace, writer's-writer Morley Safer, soft-but-tough Ed Bradley, relentless Lesley Stahl, ace interviewer Charlie Rose, tireless Anderson Cooper, intrepid Scott Pelley, and illuminating storyteller Steve Kroft. He details the decades of human drama that have made the show's success possible: the ferocious (and encouraged) competition between correspondents, the door slamming, the risk-taking, and the pranks. Fager takes on the program's mistakes and describes what it learned from them. Above all, he reveals the essential tenets that have never changed: why founder Don Hewitt believed "hearing" a story is more important than seeing it, why the "small picture" is the best way to illuminate a larger one, and why the most memorable stories are almost always those with a human being at the center. At once a sweeping portrait of fifty years of American cultural history and an intimate look at how the news gets made, Fifty Years of 60 Minutes shares the secret of what's made the nation's favorite TV program exceptional for all these years.
LC Classification NumberPN4888.T4F36 2017
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- 14 Nov, 2017
Great Reading a Piece of History
I found this book very educational to our History and our past. In several cases it was very interesting and funny, but mostly the historical part was the best. Once you pick it up it is very hard to put it down. It was nice to see some of the old faces, I remember, again. Well edited and laid out, a book well worth having in your library.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 13 Apr, 2021
For 60 minutes lovers
Beautiful book very interesting nicely organized. The book is extremely heavy but the pages are lovely and it’s wonderful book to flip through and enjoy.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 20 Dec, 2017
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- 21 Dec, 2018
everything you ever wanted to know about 60 Minutes
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- 18 Dec, 2017
Very inclusive and interesting!!
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