Even This I Get to Experience

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“Charming, candid and copious … There is still a lot of zest, passion and whimsy in the man who taught Americans to laugh at their failings.”

NEW YORK TIMES

“In this city, Norman Lear and his post-coaxial contemporaries built a mass medium with their bare hands. On good days — as Lear well recalls, and recalls well — they made it sing. If only more with their talent had lived so long; if only more who live so long had his talent.”

LOS ANGELES TIMES

“The Norman Lear who emerges from ‘Even This I Get to Experience’ is engaging and unpompous, an amusing storyteller who pokes fun at himself and writes with brutal honesty about his life, especially his childhood.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL

“While he’s willing to give up the goods — and some, such as Jerry Lewis, don’t escape unscathed — there is no sense of malice or score settling behind the anecdotes, only a wish for the truth to be known as he saw it.”

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

“A 92-year-old TV titan (and oh, by the way, World War II combat veteran, filmmaker and First Amendment activist) should feel entitled to cruise through a boastful victory lap in a book like this, but Lear largely resists that time-worn impulse. His deeper digging yields an impressively substantive tale.”

FORBES MAGAZINE

“This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written. … An absolute treasure.”

BOOKLIST

“Lear recounts his extraordinarily eventful life with his signature wit and irreverence. The result is not just a vividly observed and evocative portrait of a long life, but also a fascinating backstage look at the evolution of the American entertainment industry.”

KIRKUS REVIEWS

“The television producer whose controversial sit-com hits virtually defined the culture of the 1970s looks back on his triumphs and vexations in this feisty, thoughtful autobiography … Lear’s knack for sizing up a flawed humanity makes for an absorbing read.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Over the course of 92 years, Lear has led as interesting a life as anyone in Hollywood. … [He] single-handedly pivoted network television away from the saccharine comedies of the ’60s and toward his brand of biting social and political humor.”

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“Lear is one of the great storytellers. … The book is a trove of great stories brilliantly told about the worlds of television, movies, entertainment, society — and a 92-year-old-man still unashamedly looking for love from a felonious father and a mother who somehow forgot to say ‘I’m proud of you.’”

DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD

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