"A monumental achievement. He has written a comprehensive history of public broadcasting that reads like a 'who done it.' Sometimes a detached observer and sometimes a key participant, Day provides the reader with a riveting account of the events, the heroes, the villains and bit players that make up the compelling and complex story of public broadcasting."--Joan Ganz Cooney, Chairman, Executive Committee, Children's Television Workshop "A lively, highly readable, important account of the idealists, bumblers, bureaucrats, ...
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"A monumental achievement. He has written a comprehensive history of public broadcasting that reads like a 'who done it.' Sometimes a detached observer and sometimes a key participant, Day provides the reader with a riveting account of the events, the heroes, the villains and bit players that make up the compelling and complex story of public broadcasting."--Joan Ganz Cooney, Chairman, Executive Committee, Children's Television Workshop "A lively, highly readable, important account of the idealists, bumblers, bureaucrats, well-meaning incompetents, and dedicated souls who built America's flawed and perpetually endangered public television system. James Day is one of the giants of public television's not-so-distant early days, and he provides a knowing, fascinating, and intelligent history of the little television system that has tried to be everything to everybody, has satisfied practically nobody, was built on a foundation of no visible means of financial support, and is more desperately needed now than ever."--Lawrence K. Grossman, former president of PBS and NBC News and author of "The Electronic Republic" "James Day's fascinating history of public television is the very best way I know of to understand that glorious, complicated, frustrating, and utterly American institution. It comes at a time when PBS is facing its greatest challenges and could well be "the" reference guide as public television approaches the millennium."--Ken Burns, producer of "The Civil War" and "Baseball" "The long, unfinished struggle to create--against daunting odds--an alternative television not tethered to market forces is James Day's theme in this sweeping chronicle. This story--one of achievement eroded by internal dissention but, more significantly, by political log-rolling and chicanery--needs to be told, and Day does so with panache."--Erik Barnouw, author of "Tube of Plenty"
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Seller's Description:
This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 900grams, ISBN: 0520086597.
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Very good, very good. 24 cm, 443, illus., references, index, pencil erasure on half-title. Inscribed by the author. The author was a founder of San Francisco's KQED and past president of New York's WNET. The first history of public television written by an insider.
