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A NOTE FROM DON HEWITTDon't I have enough to do getting 60 Minutes on the air every Sunday? I thought so until Peter Osnos suggested to me that, after a half century in television in which I had seen it all and done it all, there had to be a book lurking inside me. And, after arguing that there wasn't, I came to the conclusion that there may very well be, even though the people I worked with and reported on during my fifty-two years at CBS News were, for the most part, names from another generation. For instance, how interested would today's readers be in reading about how Frank Sinatra threatened to kill me? How Barry Goldwater told 60 Minutes that no one should ever forgive Richard Nixon? That Nancy Reagan liked to talk to herself in the bathtub? Why I believed Kathleen Willey and not Bill Clinton? How the first of the televised presidential debates had turned free elections into expensive ones and how Mike Wallace, Harry Reasoner, and I hacked 60 Minutes out of a wilderness and made it an American institution. Having, as I said, seen it all and experienced it all, I feared coming across as a know-it-all. But I know too many of those and that's the last thing in the world I wanted to come across as. To give you an idea of how lucky I think I've been to lead the life I chronicled in the book, I ended it by saying that when somebody said to me, "Mr. Hewitt, when I grow up I want to be just like you," I said, "So do I." |
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PAPERBACKISBN 978-1-58648-141-4 Pub date: 09/12/02 Price: $15.00/22.95 Canada 5-1/2 X 8-1/4 288 pages Media Studies, Memoir Selling Territory: WORLD Pub history: PublicAffairs hc
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