A gripping behind-the-scenes story from inside one of the most influential news programs in American history.For almost sixty years, every Sunday night at seven o'clock sharp, a simple ticking stopwatch made America stop what it was doing. At its peak, Sixty Minutes was the most powerful hour on television, drawing as many as fifty million viewers each week. Presidents watched. CEOs braced themselves. Ordinary citizens—wronged, ignored, or silenced—found a voice. Today, beset by challenges from its conservative new owners, that voice faces extinction. In Mad as Hell, a producer from the program’s golden years takes readers deep inside the broadcast that reshaped television journalism. Working alongside Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, and executive producer Don Hewitt for over twenty years, Harry Moses tells how a scrappy news experiment morphed into a national institution, and how television at its best could hold the powerful to account.
