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King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson
King of the Night The Life of Johnny Carson
Author: Laurence Leamer
Johnny Carson is the most successful performer in the history of television, seen by more people on more occasions than anyone else in American history.  Yet until now he has been not only the most publicly familiar but the least personally known celebrity in America.  King of the Night tells the full story of the life of Johnny C...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780688074043
ISBN-10: 0688074049
Publication Date: 7/1989
Pages: 448
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Publisher: William Morrow Co
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Johnny Carson was a phenomenon, the most successful performer in the history of television. For the better part of three decades, the enormously popular host of "The Tonight Show" was welcomed into millions of American homes -- as a friend, an entertainer, and an inexhaustibly sage and witty commentator on our lives and times. But there was a dark side to this charming and inscrutable enigma that only those closest to Carson ever saw -- a sadness, mistrust, and cruelty behind the glitter and glamour, intensified by a lifelong pursuit of power, wealth, and fame.
Based on more than two years of intensive research including more than 700 personal interviews with ex-wives, ex-friends, colleagues, and celebrities -- with all-new, never-before-published material on Johnny's post-"Tonight Show" life, from his retirement through his final days -- Laurence Learner's King of the Night is an intimate and powerful portrait of an unforgettable personality, at once a tribute and a revelation.
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I learned a lot about Johnny Carson and the business of comedy.
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This is a good book if you are a real johnny Carson fan.


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