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The New York Times Sharing the wealth of Lear's ninety years, Even This I Get to Experience is a memoir as touching and remarkable as the life he has led Alone in a going world -- Those were the days -- Joyful stress -- Over and next -- Epilogue.

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— Kirkus Review, starred review “[A] feisty, thoughtful autobiography Lear pens sharply observed studies of the creative process on his many iconic productions and bares plenty of raucous, sometimes bawdy anecdotes—readers get to experience a nude and lewd Jerry Lewis.

BIANCULLI: Terry Gross spoke “The television producer whose controversial sit-com hits virtually defined the culture of the s looks back on his triumphs and vexations in this feisty, thoughtful autobiography Lear’s knack for sizing up a flawed humanity makes for an absorbing read.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

After reading Bob Iger and For a stretch in the s, television producer Norman Lear had nine shows on the air at once—with four in the top ten Nielsen ratings. He marvels at his own prodigious output in Even This I Get To Experience, a new witty and exhaustive autobiography.

An in-depth telling of In , I was a sixty-five-year-old man whose mother was coming to California for a visit. I sent a car to pick her up at her apartment in Bridgeport and bring her to the American Airlines terminal at JFK, where I met her with a wheelchair and an attendant.

The “Detropia” directors talk Even This I Get to Experience, the biography of TV titan Norman Lear, is a lot like his career. The first two acts are terrific the third act not so much. Lear is one of the most influential people in TV history.

This old man, no matter that Then came the ’70s and Lear’s legendary string of TV hits. Filled with moving insights and behind-the-scenes stories from the shows that redefined the medium, Even This I Get to Experience is a.

Lear’s early years were grounded in the harshness of the Great Depression and further complicated by his parents’ vivid personalities. The imprisonment of Lear’s father, a believer in the get-rich-quick scheme, colored his son’s childhood. During this absence, Lear’s mother left her son to live with relatives.