Author Walt Brown invites readers to a blast from the past, featuring historys most colorful sports icons and celebrities that dominated the sixties through the seventies in this docu-history Athletes, Celebrities Personal Moments: The 60s and 70s.
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Author Walt Brown, a former sports journalist during the 60s and 70s, turbulent times, womens equality rights, the Vietnam War that triggered national security and racial conflicts. The author made memorable and fascinating interviews not known in the mainstream media, basically, the names during that period, from sports to film and TV celebrities to influential politicians. They range from Muhammed Ali, and Jesse Owens, to Bill Cosby (before the scandal,) to Jerry Rice, Bob Hope, and George C. Scott. These were the most sensitive of times since broadcasting networks were adjusting to racial equality. Take a trip down to memory lane as Brown shares his most intriguing and intimate interactions with the 20th centurys well-known personalities that defined the course of athletics, entertainment, and politics significantly.
This is the era where various sports leagues rose to their greater heights, such as the NBA, NFL, PGA, MLB to name a few. As well as the popularity of television came into play where it became a new norm for news, sports, and entertainment updates. What made this read so compelling to pick up is the style of presentation. Putting the readers in the authors shoes making it up-close and personal interactions with these celebrities as if youre there as they happened. The readers will also experience the feel of the times as you go along the memoirs of the authors. Its more like pulling the book out from a time capsule.
The timeline of events was also included like any other history book but not as extensive as this material, such as the struggling racial inequality, womens equal rights issues. If youre looking for an in-depth sixties-seventies nostalgia trip, this is an awesome reference for any history buff. Grab a copy today!
Athletes, Celebrities, Personal Moments: The 60s and 70s
Author: Walt Brown
Publisher: Your Online Publicist
Publication Date: April 8, 2021
Genre: History: Society, Sports, Celebrities, Special Moments
Target Audience: Everyone who enjoys historic people.
About the Author
Walt Brown was a successful radio/TV sportscaster and TV news director during the last half of the twentieth century. He broadcast more than twenty different sports, including Major League Baseball, NFL Football, NBA Basketball, as well as auto racing and the Olympic trials. He interacted with major athletes, coaches, movie stars, celebrities and won an Emmy and other awards.
Walt attended Stanford University with a Navy ROTC Scholarship. Following college, Walt served four years, as a naval officer; two at sea and two doing sports play-by-play. He has a bachelors degree from Stanford University and a masters degree in visual communication from Arizona State University, where he studied with photographers from National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, and Arizona Highways. Walt was a TV news director, leading the second highest rated newsroom in the nation. He has won an Emmy and a number of other awards.
He is published as both a photographer and a poet, as well as having written the book, Athletes, Celebrities, Personal Moments: The 60s and 70s. He has kissed the Blarney Stone, been bitten by a killer tse-tse skim, and climbed the Great Wall of China.
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