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Brought to You in Living Color: 75 Years of Great Moments in Television and Radio from NBC
by NBC, Marc Robinson, Tom Brokaw, Kelsey Grammer, Bob Wright
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wiley (2002-03-22)
ISBN: 0471090166
EAN: 9780471090168
Dewy Decimal #: 791.45
Hardcover: 256 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 080121011
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: This First Printing Ex-Library copy is in very good condition. There are 2 stamps and 1 sticker on the front-end paper. Otherwise, no visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears to text. Tight spine. Dust Jacket is covered with mylar protection. Hard Cover appears to be clean. Minimum/moderate, shelf/edge wear. This copy is a classic which is worth having at an affordable price. (K2-66)
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Great Moments in Television & Radio
"Broadcasting is a great resource in a nation of so much diversity, giving everyone equal access to information, education,and entertainment. That's a powerful equation for people in a free society."
-Tom Brokaw
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Customer Reviews
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Disappointing
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-08-03
This book was a disappointment on several points. First, I was misled to believe that this was an official momento of NBC's seventy-five year history. Despite Tom Brokaw's introduction, NBC had nothing to do with this book. Secondly, there were too many mislabeled photos for my taste. One photo taken at a Bob Hope USO show identified Connie Stevens as "Joey Heatherton". All due respects to Ms. Stevens, anyone who knew Joey's work, couldn't possibly confuse these two performers. No way.
A photo of Benny Goodman featured a blonde singer identified as "Peggy Lee". It clearly wasn't Ms. Lee in this circa 1960s photo. Ms Lee had a successful solo career for years when and after that photo was shot.
Finally, for "general principle", Diahann Carroll's role as "Julia" was described as: "A single mother after her husband died in Vietnam..." Huh? Is it possible that the author and his staff erred using the inaccurate & offensive euphemism "single mother" to describe women, specifically black women, raising a child alone regardless of legal status? There is a whole world of difference between a single mother(a woman with children born out of wedlock), a widow,(whose lawful husband is deceased), and a divorcee. Get it right, people. If you want another coffee table book to cultivate dust mites, this is the one.
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This book is a gem!!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-12-01
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is much better than I expected. After seeing all the nice stories and great pictures, it's clear that NBC has been in front of my life more than I realized. I highly recommend this book.
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NBC Lite
Rating  (2)
Date: 2003-03-07
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you're looking for a big, happy coffee table book about what a terrific network NBC is, "Brought to You in Living Color" will meet your needs. If, however, you're expecting actual information (ratings? dates? a comprehensive list of shows? interviews?), as I was, this content-starved book will only make you shake your fist and curse the all-powerful National Broadcasting Network. It's as if the NBC publicity department is offering you a big bowl of jellybeans ... colorful and tempting, to be sure, but ultimately unsatisfying.
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Elegant book
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-04-13
2 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Leafing through this gorgeous volume brought back so many memories, I had to buy it. Chico and the Man, Jane Pauley on The Today Show, The Gong Show, Willard Scott with his toupee, Johnny Carson, John Belushi, the Olympics (with Ali bravely holding the torch). Your don't realize how much influence NBC has had in our lives -- making us better at our jobs, making us laugh, exposing us to new places and idea. There's great stuff on new shows as well -- West Wing, Law & Order,etc. Definitely worthwhile for the nostalgia and pictures -- it's quite beautiful book.
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A New History of American Culture
Rating (5)
Date: 2002-04-11
6 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Brought to You in Living Color: 75 Years of Great Moments in Television and Radio from NBCBROUGHT TO YOU IN LIVING COLOR is a wealth of knowledge on and about the history of NBC, which is also at once a history of network programming on television and modern entertainment itself. More importantly, Brought to You in Living Color, is everybody's book as it reads like a biography, a tightly researched work of non-fiction, and a memoir as it relays many facts and anectdotes (both funny and touching) about many of the milestones in television. The book spans from the early days of radio to the current shows on NBC. While telling the story of the network, the book narrates what will likely be the most relevant social history of 20th century America. I strongly recommend this for your personal library,coffee table, or as a gift.
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