Meeting of Minds: The Television Scripts

Will Durant
" 'Meeting of Minds' held our family fascinated. We felt it a conception of originality and courage...a masterpiece of presentation."


Saturday Review
"The script is wonderfully entertaining...We ought to have more such jeux d'esprit on television."


Book Description
The award-winning PBS-TV network series "Meeting of Minds" received a more enthusiastic and complimentary reaction than any program ever carried on American educational television. Small wonder that the nation's television critics voted its scripts the "Best TV Writing of 1976-77," together with James Costigan's "Eleanor and Franklin." Here are the scripts of the First Series. The programs--unique, ingenious, and creative--bring together some of history's most significant figures and elicit a crosscurrent of ideas and beliefs that illuminate the past, present, and even the future. One reviewer has called the series "the most fascinating talk show of all." The first two programs bring together Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Paine, and Cleopatra, who discuss their ideas and experiences. The next two shows include Marie Antoinette, Sir Thomas More, Karl Marx, and Ulysses S. Grant. In the final two, Atila the Hun, Emily Dickinson, Galileo, and Charles Darwin strike intellectual sparks. This is the first of four volumes of scripts of the First through the Fourth Series of "Meeting of Minds."


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Allen brings together the characters of Ulysses S. Grant, Marie Antoinette, Sir Thomas More, and Karl Marx. Original PBS soundtrack. Unabridged.


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