The nation's television critics voted Steve Allen's "Meeting of Minds" scripts as the 'Best TV Writing of 1976-1977', together with James Costigan's "Eleanor and Franklin". Subsequently the series won the Peabody Award, an Encyclopaedia Britannica Award, the Film Advisory Board Award, and an official endorsement by the National Education Association. This volume contains the second Series of six scripts. The first two programs bring together Margaret Sanger, Mohandas Gandhi, and Adam Smith; the second two include Niccolo Paganini, William Blake, and Leonardo da Vinci; and the final two feature Oliver Cromwell, the nineteenth-century Irish nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell, and Catherine the Great. This is the second of four volumes of scripts from the First through the Fourth Series of "Meeting of Minds".
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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
"[Allen] has always been one of the most intelligent and literate entertainers...as lively and fresh an educational device as TV has seen." -- 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." -- Wall Street Journal
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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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Meeting of Minds - Series II,
This review is from: Meeting of Minds: The Complete Scripts, with Illustrations, of the Amazingly Successful PBS-TV Series, Second Series (Paperback)
In addition to examining timely social issues and philosophical questions, these scripts, Series I & II, take an irresitible form. Almost everyone has fantasized about whom they would invite for an evening of conversation if they could invite anyone who ever lived. Many of us have thought about it. Steve Allen did it. Picture Emily Dickinson chatting with Attila the Hun. Who wouldn't want to hear what they would say to each other?
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IN PREFATORY REMARKS ON THE OCCASION OF THE PUBLICATION of the first six scripts of the "Meeting of Minds" television series I explained that it had taken some eighteen years to get the show, on a regular basis, on American network television. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Anthony, Miss Nightingale, Sir Francis, Signor Beccaria, United States, Emiliano Zapata, Florence Nightingale, Francis Bacon, Martin Luther, Cesare Beccaria, Marquis de Sade, Frederick Douglass, New York, Old Testament, Steve Allen, Mao Tse-tung, Monsieur Voltaire, Porfirio Diaz, Aunt Katy, French Revolution, Pancho Villa, American Revolution, Mexican Revolution, Sun Yat-sen, Empress of China New!
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IN PREFATORY REMARKS ON THE OCCASION OF THE PUBLICATION of the first six scripts of the "Meeting of Minds" television series I explained that it had taken some eighteen years to get the show, on a regular basis, on American network television. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Anthony, Miss Nightingale, Sir Francis, Signor Beccaria, United States, Emiliano Zapata, Florence Nightingale, Francis Bacon, Martin Luther, Cesare Beccaria, Marquis de Sade, Frederick Douglass, New York, Old Testament, Steve Allen, Mao Tse-tung, Monsieur Voltaire, Porfirio Diaz, Aunt Katy, French Revolution, Pancho Villa, American Revolution, Mexican Revolution, Sun Yat-sen, Empress of China New!
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- The New Atlantis and The City of the Sun: Two Classic Utopias by Francis Bacon on page 184
- A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume on page 18
- Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics) by Desiderius Erasmus on page 113
- Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington on page 8
- Lettres Persanes (French Edition) by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu on page 55
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- But Seriously: Steve Allen Speakes His Mind by Steve Allen on 7 pages
- Meeting of Minds : The Complete Scripts, With Illustrations, of the Amazingly Successful PBS-TV Series - Series I by Steve Allen on 4 pages
- Creative Teaching: Ideas to Boost Student Interest by James P. Downing on page 163, page 176, and Back Matter
- Make 'Em Laugh by Steve Allen in Front Matter, page 217, and page 224
- Catherine the Great : Life and Legend by John T. Alexander on page 200, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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