Meeting of Minds: The Television Scripts
- Book Review,
by Steve Allen
Wall Street Journal
"[Allen] has always been one of the most intelligent and literate entertainers...as lively and fresh an educational device as TV has seen."
Los Angeles Times
"...Allen succeeds in making the dialogues intellectually stimulating as well as entertaining, and the range of topics discussed is surprising."
Will Durant
" 'Meeting of Minds' held our family fascinated. We felt it a conception of originality and courage...a masterpiece of presentation."
Publishers
"Delightful conversations that illuminate changes in the ways of thinking and highlight the landmarks of human progress."
Book Description
The award-winning PBS-TV network series "Meeting of Minds" has received 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 1976-1977," together with James Costigan's "Eleanor and Franklin." Here are the scripts of the Third Series. The first two programs bring together Saint Augustine, Empress Theodora of the Byzantine Empire, Thomas Jefferson, and Bertrand Russell. The next two include Aristotle, Machiavelli, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Sun Yat-Sen. The final two shows star William Shakespeare and many of his most famous characters. This is the third of four volumes of scripts of the First through the Fourth Series of "Meeting of Minds."
About the Author
Steve Allen, comedian (creator of the "Tonight Show" and the "Steve Allen Show"), political activist, author of dozens of books, songwriter (more than 4,000 songs), composer, conductor, singer, producer, and winner of numerous awards.
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