Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin

Johnny Carson by Henry Bushkin is a 294-page hardcover, an Eamon Dolan Book, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York, 2013.  The Dust Jacket shows light surface rubbing.  Inside, the book is clean and unmarked and the binding is like new.  Book Summary From 1962 until 1992, Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show and permeated the American consciousness.  In the '70s and '80s he was the country's highest paid entertainer and its most enigmatic.  He was notoriously inscrutable, as mercurial (and sometimes cruel) off-camera as he was charming and hilarious onstage.  During the apex of his reign, Carson's longtime lawyer and best friend was Henry Bushkin, who now shows us Johnny Carson with a breathtaking clarity and depth that nobody else could. From the moment in 1970 when Carson hired Bushkin (who was just twenty-seven) until the moment eighteen years later when they parted ways, the author witnessed and often took part in a string of escapades that still retain their power to s