The legendary talk show host's humorous reminiscences and pointed commentary on the great figures he has known and culture and politics today.For years Dick Cavett played host to the nation's most famous personalities on his latenight talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear Cavett's best tales as he recounts great moments with the legendary entertainers who crossed his path and offers his own trenchant commentary on contemporary American culture and politics.Pull up a chair and listen to Cavett's stories about one-upping Bette Davis, testifying on behalf of John Lennon, confronting Richard Nixon, scheming with John Updike, befriending William F. Buckley, palling around with Groucho Marx, and dealing with a guest who (literally!) died on the show. Sprinkled in are tales of his childhood in Nebraska in the 1940s and 1950s, where he honed his sense of comic timing and his love of magic; then to his great surpise, he found himself at Yale.Cavett is also a wry cultural observer, looking at America today and pointing out the foibles that we so often fail to notice about ourselves. And don't even get him started on politicians. A generation of Americans ended their evenings in Dick Cavett's company; Talk Show is a way to welcome him back. Read Less