Television History

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    • Letterman, Leno, & the Network Battle for the Night
    • Written by: Bill Carter
    • Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2020-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Based on in-depth reporting and interviews with those involved, and updated with a new introduction by the author, The Late Shift is a blow-by-blow account of the fight that ensued as stars, agents, and executives maneuvered for control of the most profitable program in TV history....

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    • The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate
    • Written by: Rick Bowers
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2012-03-27
    • Language: English
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    • In the late 1940s, The Adventures of Superman radio show struck a powerful blow against the Ku Klux Klan....

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    • The Great Moments That Built a Galaxy Far, Far Away
    • Written by: Ken Napzok, Joseph Scrimshaw - foreword
    • Narrated by: Ken Napzok
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-27
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Celebrate the greatest saga ever told: All of us who are deeply influenced by the epic saga of Star Wars have our favorite moments....

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    • The Invention of Reality TV
    • Written by: Emily Nussbaum
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The rollicking saga of reality television, an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer.

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    • Television, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Illusion
    • Written by: James Poniewozik
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president....

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    • The Most Important Technologies, People and Events That Created the History of Television
    • Written by: Edward N. Simpson
    • Narrated by: Craig Patterson
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-02
    • Language: English
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    • Television is probably something we nowadays take for granted. There is a TV in almost every home, a TV in almost every public building - basically, where there is a signal, there is a TV....

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    • Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to the Classic TV Series
    • Written by: Emily St. James, Noel Murray
    • Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-17
    • Language: English
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    • For fans of one of the most successful and highly discussed shows in recent memory, LOST: Back to the Island is both a delightful time capsule and a rousing work of entertainment criticism.

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    • A Critical History of Witches in American Film and Television
    • Written by: Heather Greene
    • Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2021-10-08
    • Language: English
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    • No industry has been as influential at shaping the popular notion of what it means to be a witch quite as much as Hollywood. This book traces the fascinating history of witchcraft and witches in American film and television....

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    • How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV
    • Written by: Peter Biskind
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2023-11-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora’s Box asks, “What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?” The answer: It gave us a revolution....

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    • Film, Stage and TV Adaptations
    • Written by: Jennifer Lafferty
    • Narrated by: Erin Shaughnessy
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-02
    • Language: English
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    • For more than one hundred years, the celebrated Gothic romance Jane Eyre has been a popular subject at the movies and was quickly adapted to television in countless TV movies/miniseries, eventually becoming a Broadway musical.

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    • The Complete and Fascinating History of a New Jersey Criminal Organization That Inspired a Popular TV Hit
    • Written by: Mafia Library
    • Narrated by: John Raynar
    • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • If you want to uncover the secrets of one of the most notorious criminal organizations in American history, then you need to listen to this audiobook....

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    • A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television
    • Written by: Grace Jung
    • Narrated by: Grace Jung
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2024-04-23
    • Language: English
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    • From stand-up comedian and media studies PhD Grace Jung comes a rollicking deep dive into the cultural significance of Korean television....

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    • Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
    • Written by: Warren Littlefield, T. R. Pearson
    • Narrated by: Bob Balaban
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2012-05-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Warren Littlefield was the NBC President of Entertainment who oversaw the Peacock Network’s rise from also-ran to a division that generated a billion dollars in profits....

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    • TV Milestones
    • Written by: David Scott Diffrient
    • Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
    • Length: 4 hrs
    • Release date: 2013-05-11
    • Language: English
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    • Few American television series are as deeply entrenched in twentieth-century popular culture as M*A*S*H, a Korean War medical comedy characterized by its dark tone and finesse in tackling serious social and political issues....

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    • Adventures and Misadventures of a Cinematic Life
    • Written by: Carolyn Pfeiffer, Gregory Collins - contributor
    • Narrated by: Devon O'day
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 2023-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A cinematic and vibrant coming-of-age memoir, Chasing the Panther captures the thrilling and, at times, heartbreaking early years of Carolyn Pfeiffer, a pioneering film producer and one of Hollywood's first female executives—a “mini-mogul” in the words of the Wall Street Journal....

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    • The Triumph of the American Libido
    • Written by: David Friend
    • Narrated by: David Friend
    • Length: 26 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2017-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A sexual history of the 1990s, when the baby boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue....

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