Rolling sound. Quiet. From new york, the tonight show starring Johnny Carson. And now, heres the fabulous har Harry Belafonte. Here he comes. Strong gets more while the weak ones fade i found out about that week from Harry Belafonte. I went over to his home. And all of a sudden, effortlessly, he started talking about this week of television and the tonight show. Im thinking, wait a minute, Harry Belafonte hosted a week of the tonight show . What . What . How did i not know this . That was probably the most revolutionary move that Mainstream Television could have done, at the time. I write about tv. I write about politics. I should have known about it. Why dois this history lost to u . Harry belafonte takes an existing, White Institution in american culture, and he turns it into something that represents his world. That it should be multicultural. That it should be politically engaged. What Harry Belafonte did, he combined politics and entertainment. Like, a forerunner to the daily show
Times before and this evening. Shes here to talk about her new biography of elizabeth who is in her 60th year as queen her diamond anniversary it is and chronicling the lives of William Paley Pamela Harriman diana both the kennedys and the clintons. I think that sally has well established herself as a prominent biographer prominent and bestselling biographer i should say for the past 15 years. Shes also been a contributing editor to vogue. And before that she wrote for time and she was a cultural reporter for the new york times. During the time just as a personal side that she was researching this biography. She and while she was interviewing over 200 people and spending six months in residence in london. Her daughter was married. This was a true angloamerican event her daughter married in English Army Officer at the guards chapel, which is just what she says was a stones throw for Buckingham Palace. Um the part that ive just telling sally the part of elizabeths life that i was so impr
Ive introduced hers several times before and this evening. Shes here to talk about her new biography of elizabeth who is in her 60th year as queen her diamond anniversary it is and chronicling the lives of William Paley Pamela Harriman diana both the kennedys and the clintons. I think that sally has well established herself as a prominent biographer prominent and bestselling biographer i should say for the past 15 years. Shes also been a contributing editor to vogue. And before that she wrote for time and she was a cultural reporter for the new york times. During the time just as a personal side that she was researching this biography. She and while she was interviewing over 200 people and spending six months in residence in london. Her daughter was married. This was a true angloamerican event her daughter married in English Army Officer at the guards chapel, which is just what she says was a stones throw for Buckingham Palace. Um the part that ive just telling sally the part of elizab
Line purchase a book leave it at the information counter for with the instructions of how you would like it signed and then you can pick it up anytime after tomorrow morning. Well get it signed for you. Im barbara meade. Im one of the founders of politics and prose and this evening. I want to welcome sally bedell smith. Ive introduced hers several times before and this evening. Shes here to talk about her new biography of elizabeth who is in her 60th year as queen her diamond anniversary it is and chronicling the lives of William Paley Pamela Harriman diana both the kennedys and the clintons. I think that sally has well established herself as a prominent biographer prominent and bestselling biographer i should say for the past 15 years. Shes also been a contributing editor to vogue. And before that she wrote for time and she was a cultural reporter for the new york times. During the time just as a personal side that she was researching this biography. She and while she was interviewing
Line purchase a book leave it at the information counter for with the instructions of how you would like it signed and then you can pick it up anytime after tomorrow morning. Well get it signed for you. Im barbara meade. Im one of the founders of politics and prose and this evening. I want to welcome sally bedell smith. Ive introduced hers several times before and this evening. Shes here to talk about her new biography of elizabeth who is in her 60th year as queen her diamond anniversary it is and chronicling the lives of William Paley Pamela Harriman diana both the kennedys and the clintons. I think that sally has well established herself as a prominent biographer prominent and bestselling biographer i should say for the past 15 years. Shes also been a contributing editor to vogue. And before that she wrote for time and she was a cultural reporter for the new york times. During the time just as a personal side that she was researching this biography. She and while she was interviewing