Mike Wallace A Life

In his four decades as the front man for 60 Minutes,Mike Wallace earned the distinction of being one of the most aggressive, self-assured and unflinching journalists in the business. His unrivalled career includes interviews with every major newsmaker of the late 20th century, from Martin Luther King to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Yet behind this intimidating facade, he was deeply depressed and haunted by demons that have plagued him since childhood and nearly drove him to suicide. In fact, Mike was so self-conscious that he had serious doubts about taking his career from radio into television. Having began his career announcing game and quiz shows, dabbling here and there in acting jobs and performing in television commercials, it was only after a devastating personal tragedy in his mid 40's, that Mike turned his attention exclusively to televised news. Within one decade he became the most talked about newsman in America. Mike Wallace is Heretells the untold story of how the world's most feared TV reporter transformed his inner darkness into a journalistic juggernaut that riveted millions and redefined the landscape of television news.

PETER RADER was raised in Rome and educated at Harvard University. A filmmaker and screenwriter, he has developed projects for all the major Hollywood studios. Rader resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

“Mike Wallace was a television pioneer who transformed the news interview. In his quest to make news reporting less deferential and more hard-hitting, he also helped blur the lines between factual program making and entertainment. This makes him a controversial figure in the history of popular culture – and Peter Rader has done an excellent job of putting him in the context of a fast changing America. Rader’s greatest accomplishment is to show how the drama of Wallace’s private life reflected the way the complex revolution going on in television journalism. Full of repressed desires, ambition, foolishness and regret, this book is a fine example of how one life can represent the triumphs and tribulations of an entire generation.”—Timothy Stanley, author of The Crusader: the Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan

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