Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Maguire, James, 1959-

Title Impresario : the life and times of Ed Sullivan / James Maguire.

Publication Info. New York : Billboard Books, 2006.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY SULLIVAN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B SULLIVAN, ED    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B SULLIVAN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B SULLIVAN    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO SULLIVAN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  B SULLIVAN, ED    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B SULLIVAN    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B SULLIVAN, E.    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B SULLIVAN ED M    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG SULLIVAN    Check Shelf
Description vii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- pt. 1. A showman's education -- ch. 1. Twins -- ch. 2. Two loves -- ch. 3. The porno graphic -- ch. 4. Broadway -- ch. 5. Café society -- ch. 6. Hollywood -- ch. 7. The war years -- pt. 2. The birth of television -- ch. 8. A temporary job -- ch. 9. "Really big show" -- ch. 10. David vs. Goliath -- ch. 11. Stardom -- ch. 12. Elvis -- ch. 13. The globetrotter -- ch. 14. The times they are a changin' -- ch. 15. Beatlemania -- ch. 16. The generation gap -- ch. 17. Ripped asunder -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Selected bibliography -- Endnotes -- Index.
Summary A perfect mirror of its time, The Ed Sullivan Show ran from 1948 to 1971, echoing this period's every chapter; the birth of television, the conformist 1950's, the dawn of the rock era - featuring a hip-shaking Elvis and the Beatles' U.S. debut - and finally, the tumultuous late 1960s.
Subject Sullivan, Ed, 1901-1974.
Ed Sullivan show (Television program)
Television personalities -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 0823079627
9780823079629
-->
Add a Review