by Larry King
First published 1991
Larry King opens his collection with Richard Nixon riding through Dallas on the day President Kennedy was assassinated. Over thirty years in broadcasting, King has gathered thousands of encounters with famous figures, and he transforms these meetings into a mix of verified accounts and embellished tales. Stephen King describes meeting an actual ghost. Donald Trump learns that wealth has limits. George Bush, Jesse Jackson, Elvis Presley, Gore Vidal, and Frank Sinatra populate these pages alongside King's sharp observations and comic commentary. Each story reveals how the famous and infamous behave when the cameras stop rolling. King moves between political figures and entertainment stars, capturing moments that range from absurd to revealing. The book delivers both the spectacle of celebrity culture and King's decades of experience watching powerful people navigate their public and private lives.
Genres: 20th-century, non-fiction, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: behind-the-scenes, celebrity-memoir
Setting: Dallas
Period: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
Hardcover · Charnwood