Todd S Purdum

Gebundenes Buch

Desi Arnaz

The Man Who Invented Television

Beschreibung

An illuminating biography of Desi Arnaz, who forever transformed television through his trailblazing success both in front of the camera in I Love Lucy and behind it as the genius driving Desilu Productions, exploring a bold and turbulent life marked by addiction and divorce.

Autor

Todd S. Purdum is a veteran journalist and author. In a career of more than forty years, he has written widely about politics and culture, starting at The New York Times, where he spent twenty-three years, covering politics from city hall to the White House, later serving as diplomatic correspondent and Los Angeles bureau chief. He has also been a staff writer at Vanity Fair, Politico, and The Atlantic. He is the author of Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution and An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers, with whom he has two grown children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9781668023068
• ISBN-10: 1668023067
• Artikelnr.: 71927390