Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. This is Jordan Rich. A few weeks
ago, television pioneer Norman Lear passed away at one hundred and one, so
I thought we'd take a look at his memoir, written in twenty fifteen called
Even This I Get to Experience. The New York Times said it was full
of zest, passion, and whimsy and the man who taught Americans to laugh
at their failings. Norman's hit sitcoms All in the Family, Maud, the
Jeffersons kept us all laughing and made us think. But there's more to the
Norman Lear story. As he writes about his experiences growing up during the Depression
and on the World War II front in the nineteen forties. There are star
and celebrity stories on just about every page, from all of the stars of
his sitcoms to those of his movies Sinatra, Dick Van Dyck, Jason Robarts,
Rob Reiner. The fact that he wrote his sparkly memoir in his early
nineties and has such a way with words makes this an enjoyable read. Even
This I Get to Experience Memoir by Norman Lear. The Book Club WBZ,
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