Archie Bunker, George Jefferson, Maude - the television sitcom world of the 1970s was peopled by the creations of Norman Lear. Beginning in 1971, with the premier of "All in the Family", Lear's work gave sitcoms a new face and a new style. No longer were families perfect and lives in order. Mostly b[...]

"This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written... An absolute treasure." --"Booklist "(STARRED)
"In my ninety-plus years I've lived a multitude of lives. In the course of all these lives, I had a front-row seat at the birth of television; wrote, produced, created, or develope[...]