The biggest television drama of
the late 1950s wasn't a romance, or a western, or a cop show. It was the TV quiz-show
scandals -- deception on a grand scale that played out on a small screen. After
contestants became beloved celebrities, the nation learned that all was not as
it seemed -- that many of them went on the air already knowing the questions
they would be asked, the answers to those questions, and how to "perform"
when answering them on the air for maximum dramatic effect. A story that began
in a producer's study on Park Avenue ended in a congressional hearing room in
Washington, D.C. Along the way careers were wrecked and reputations were
ruined. My book TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES is a all-encompassing look at the people
involved, the chicanery behind the scenes and the Madison Avenue Mad Men who
enabled it.
To read an excerpt, click here.
To buy the book from bookshop.org, click here.
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