Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan's America - Gerald Nachman - Google Books

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Before the advent of cable and its hundreds of channels, before iPods and the Internet, three television networks ruled America's evenings. And for twenty-three years, Ed Sullivan, the Broadway gossip columnist turned awkward emcee, ruled Sunday nights. It…