The man who invented the television talk show surpassed even himself when he created "Meeting of Minds", the award-winning series that captured America's imagination. These four volumes offer the original scripts from the series, including material edited from the broadcast versions that ran from 1977 to 1981 on PBS stations nation-wide. Indeed, "Meeting of Minds" grew out of Allen's frustration with the mediocrity of the average network program. He envisioned the show as a stimulating round-table discussion conducted like any other talk show - except that the participants would be actors portraying some of the greatest minds and most prominent figures of history. Accordingly, such characters as Aristotle, Catherine the Great, Oliver Cromwell, Emily Dickinson, Margaret Sanger, Gandhi, Thomas Paine, Cleopatra, Theodore Roosevelt, and St. Thomas Aquinas appear in startlingly effective juxtaposition, their characters revealed through brilliantly conceived dialogue.
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" 'Meeting of Minds' held our family fascinated. We felt it a conception of originality and courage...a masterpiece of presentation." -- Will Durant
"The script is wonderfully entertaining...We ought to have more such jeux d'esprit on television." -- Saturday Review
"The script is wonderfully entertaining...We ought to have more such jeux d'esprit on television." -- Saturday Review
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This is a must hear for all Americans. Thought provoking, globally analytical, it is a positive tribute to the brilliance of Mr. Allen.
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Great book but I can't say much for the binding.Seems the publisher could spend a tiny bit for a binding that will hold the cover to the book. I purchased this book for my husband as a gift. First thing upon opening the book the cover came off. Not good!
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- Roman Empire by Colin Well on 4 pages
- Meeting of Minds: The Complete Scripts, with Illustrations, of the Amazingly Successful PBS-TV Series, Second Series by Steve Allen on 4 pages
- The American Revolution by R. G. Grant on 4 pages
- Charles Darwin by Grant Allen on 4 pages
- The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine on page 60, page 61, and page 62
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