Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. This is Jordan Rich. A few weeks ago, television pioneer Norman Lear passed away at one hundred and one, so I thought we'd take a look at his memoir, written in twenty fifteen called Even This I Get to Experience. The New York Times said it was full of zest, passion, and whimsy and the man who taught Americans to laugh at their failings. Norman's hit sitcoms All in the Family, Maud, the Jeffersons kept us all laughing and made us think. But there's more to the
Norman Lear story. As he writes about his experiences growing up during the Depression and on the World War II front in the nineteen forties. There are star and celebrity stories on just about every page, from all of the stars of his sitcoms to those of his movies Sinatra, Dick Van Dyck, Jason Robarts, Rob Reiner. The fact that he wrote his sparkly memoir in his early nineties and has such a way with words makes this an enjoyable read. Even
This I Get to Experience Memoir by Norman Lear. The Book Club WBZ, Boston's news radio t