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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.
This is Jordan Rich. A few weeks

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ago, television pioneer Norman Lear passed
away at one hundred and one, so

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I thought we'd take a look at
his memoir, written in twenty fifteen called

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Even This I Get to Experience.
The New York Times said it was full

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of zest, passion, and whimsy
and the man who taught Americans to laugh

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at their failings. Norman's hit sitcoms
All in the Family, Maud, the

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Jeffersons kept us all laughing and made
us think. But there's more to the

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Norman Lear story. As he writes
about his experiences growing up during the Depression

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and on the World War II front
in the nineteen forties. There are star

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and celebrity stories on just about every
page, from all of the stars of

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his sitcoms to those of his movies
Sinatra, Dick Van Dyck, Jason Robarts,

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Rob Reiner. The fact that he
wrote his sparkly memoir in his early

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nineties and has such a way with
words makes this an enjoyable read. Even

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This I Get to Experience Memoir by
Norman Lear. The Book Club WBZ,

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