{"product_id":"meeting-of-minds-fourth-series-9780879755676","title":"Meeting of Minds: Fourth Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe man who invented the television talk show surpassed even himself when he created Meeting of Minds  the award-winning series that captured Americas imagination. These four volumes offer the original scripts from the series  including material edited from the broadcast versions that ran from 1977 to 1981 on PBS stations nationwide.Many believe that Meeting of Minds is the most brilliant series ever to be written for television. The show provides a groundbreaking opportunity to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor.Indeed  Meeting of Minds grew out of Allens frustration with the mediocrity of the average network program. He envisioned the show as a stimulating round-table discussion conducted like any other talk show - except that the participants would be actors portraying some of the greatest minds and most prominent figures of history. Accordingly  such characters as Aristotle  Catherine the Great  Oliver Cromwell  Emily Dickinson  Margaret Sanger  Gandhi  Thomas Paine  Cleopatra  Theodore Roosevelt  and St. Thomas Aquinas appear in startlingly effective juxtaposition  their characters revealed through brilliantly conceived dialogue.This first volume features appearances by President Theodore Roosevelt  Queen Cleopatra  Thomas Aquinas  Thomas Paine  President Ulysses S. Grant  Queen Marie Antoinette  Sir Thomas More  Karl Marx  Charles Darwin  Emily Dickinson  Galileo Galilei  and Attila the Hun.The scripts for Meeting of Minds make for excellent reading  distilling an enormous amount of research into a lively format that has the undeniable veracity of historical fact. The result is unfailingly witty  thought-provoking  and geniunely entertaining.Steve Allens lucidity and fertile intelligence are evident on every page. Meeting of Minds remains one of the freshest  most delightful ways of gaining historical perspective ever devised  an incomparable tour de force with the power to make history come alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45965862797365,"sku":"ByrdShop_0879755679","price":39.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780879755676.jpg?v=1788371005","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/meeting-of-minds-fourth-series-9780879755676","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}