{"product_id":"norman-corwin-9781476686417","title":"Norman Corwin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Called The Poet Laureate of Radio by critics, Norman Corwin was the top writer at CBS when CBS reigned supreme in radio, and when radio itself dominated public attention. This biography tells the story of Norman''s unlikely rise from a triple-decker tenement on Bremen Street in East Boston to the top rung of radio writers during the Golden Age of Radio. A self-taught writer who never graduated from high school, he learned what audiences craved, and he gave it to them. His nuanced theater of the mind dramas, tender love stories, and witty comedies were hits talked about long after they were broadcast, and, when his scripts were published, became bestsellers. The week after Pearl Harbor, Norman''s show We Hold These Truths was broadcast to the largest radio audience ever. His V-E Day broadcast on May 8, 1945, On a Note of Triumph, made a similarly enduring mark and still constitutes the gold standard for wartime drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Note\u003cbr\u003eNorman's December Surprise: \"We Hold These Truths\"\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Norman to Nineteen (1910–1929)\u003cbr\u003eA \"Tough Kid\" in Eastie\u003cbr\u003eThree Arts and a Boy\u003cbr\u003eHis Father's Business\u003cbr\u003eHis Mother's Boy\u003cbr\u003eNorman's First War Story\u003cbr\u003eNorman Types and Discovers Radio\u003cbr\u003eNo Bar Mitzvah for Norman\u003cbr\u003eWinthrop\u003cbr\u003eRestart in High School\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Lost Year\" and Greenfield\u003cbr\u003eGreenfield and Its Paper\u003cbr\u003eMeeting Heywood Broun\u003cbr\u003eSee Him When in New York?\u003cbr\u003e1928, After Broun\u003cbr\u003eSpringfield\u003cbr\u003eNorman Proposes to His Coauthor\u003cbr\u003eEnter \"Jumbo\"\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Norman in His Twenties (1930–1939)\u003cbr\u003eTaking a Reading in 1930\u003cbr\u003eThe Tragedy and Norman's Resolution\u003cbr\u003eInnocents Abroad, 1931\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Interruption\"\u003cbr\u003eHits and Misses\u003cbr\u003eHe's Back\u003cbr\u003eTrouble in Paradise\u003cbr\u003eNorman's Roller Coaster\u003cbr\u003ePoetic License\u003cbr\u003eCBS\u003cbr\u003eNorman Corwin's Words Without Music\u003cbr\u003eA Book for Mr. McKenzie\u003cbr\u003e\"Seems Radio Is Here to Stay\"\u003cbr\u003eCurley and Pursuit of Happiness\u003cbr\u003e\"Ballad for Americans\"\u003cbr\u003eHollywood\u003cbr\u003e\"To Tim at Twenty\"\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Norman to Age Forty (1940–1950)\u003cbr\u003eRequiem for Alfred Eisner\u003cbr\u003e26 by Corwin\u003cbr\u003eWashington\u003cbr\u003eThis Is War!\u003cbr\u003eEngland\u003cbr\u003e\"The Long Name That None Could Spell\"\u003cbr\u003eColumbia Presents Corwin\u003cbr\u003e\"On a Note of Triumph\"\u003cbr\u003eKate\u003cbr\u003ePostwar to 1950\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eChapter Notes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040497467735,"sku":"9781476686417","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476686417.jpg?v=1750946934","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/norman-corwin-9781476686417","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}