Most Popular Books by Norman Lear

Norman Lear is the author of Even This I Get to Experience (2015), Meet the Bunkers (1981), Gloria Poses in the Nude (1975), All in the Family (2023), Cold Turkey (1969).

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Even This I Get to Experience

release date: Oct 27, 2015
Even This I Get to Experience
Norman Lear is the renowned creator of such iconic television programs as All in the Family, Maude, and The Jeffersons. He remade our television culture from the ground up, and in Even This I Get To Experience, he opens up about the ups and downs of his three marriages, tells stories about time spent with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin and offers a thrilling new look at the golden age of show business. He tells of life growing up in the Great Depression right through to his father''s imprisonment and his own eventual affluence. Endlessly readable and unforgettable.

Meet the Bunkers

Meet the Bunkers
Originally produced on television by Tandem Productions, 1972.

All in the Family

release date: Sep 26, 2023
All in the Family
All in the Family creator Norman Lear takes fans behind the scenes of the groundbreaking sitcom on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The face of television was changed forever in 1971 with the premiere of All in the Family. The working-class Bunker family of Queens, New York—lovable bigot Archie (Carroll O''Connor), his long-suffering “dingbat” wife Edith (Jean Stapleton), their liberal daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers), and son-in-law Mike "Meathead" Stivic (Rob Reiner)—instantly became, and half a century later still are, four of the most iconic characters in television. In All in the Family: The Show that Changed Television, Norman Lear shares his take on fifty essential episodes that exemplify why the show remains as funny and relevant as ever. Its boundary-pushing approach to hot-button topics is examined with commentary from co-stars O’ Connor, Stapleton, Reiner, and Struthers, as well as writers, directors, and guest stars from the show. With previously unseen notes from Lear, script pages, production designs, and a foreword by super-fan Jimmy Kimmel, this book is the ultimate companion to the seminal series and a must for fans of Lear’s shows and television comedy. “Norman Lear,” said New Yorker critic Michael Arlen, “has a feel for what people want to see before they know they want to see it.” All in the Family, like all of the Lear shows that followed, was a turning point in television’s handling of taboo subjects such as race relations, feminism, homosexuality, war, religion, gun control, social inequity, and other controversial subjects, all of which remain in the news today.

Cold Turkey

Cold Turkey
Script, 1969, for Cold Turkey, a satirical film about efforts by residents of a small town in Iowa to stop smoking in hopes of winning a large sum of money from a tobacco company. Screenplay written by director Norman Lear and William Price Fox, Jr.

Pocket Guide to the Norman Lear Center

release date: Jun 01, 2003
Pocket Guide to the Norman Lear Center
Brochure with comprehensive description of Lear Center activities between 1999-2003.

The Collection of Max Palevsky

release date: Jan 01, 2010
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