"Minute by Minute" is the fabulous story of "60 Minutes," on screen and behind the scenes, as only Don Hewitt, its creator and executive producer, can tell it. In "Minute by Minute," the most important and revealing book yet on TV and TV news, Hewitt brings the entire story to life. With characteristic candor and pungency, Hewitt puts us on the other side of the TV screen as correspondents pursue the news and conduct the interviews that make up his personal hall of fame - memorable performances by the leading lights of stage and screen and sports and politics, by con men and gunmen and just plain folks. Here’s how Harry and Dan, Ed and Diane, Mike and Morley made the show that told America "What Really Happened at the Gulf of Tonkin," exposed "The Other Face of the IRA," and helped get an innocent man named Lenell Geter out of jail in Texas. Here’s how a stellar cast and crew brought us the stars and the names in the news: Liz and Dick and LBJ, Woody Allen and the Shah of Iran, Betty Ford and Jesse Jackson, Katharine Hepburn, Sir Laurence Olivier, and half a hundred more.

Hewitt, Don