The celebrity anecdotes in this Dick Cavett collection of essays are winning, as expected. Unexpected are the vivid and sometimes poignant recollections from a Nebraska adolescence, among them: a William Jennings Bryan statue at the state Capitol vandalized, a bittersweet Christmas story, and driving in freezing rain. I started this book thinking it was too bad there's no one like Cavett on TV today, but there might be when Stephen Colbert takes over the Late Show. Coincidentally in one of these columns written before CBS made that hire, Cavett makes the case for Colbert.
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