тАЬA close look at how show business power corrupts . . . The dishiest read of the year.тАЭ тАУ Janet Maslin, тАЬTen Favorite Books of the Year,тАЭ┬аNew York Times
тАЬHereтАЩs Johnny!тАЭ Probably everyone in America knows the phrase, whether they watched every episode of┬аThe Tonight Show┬аor none because they had to go to bed early on school nights. From 1962 to 1992, Johnny Carson and his┬аTonight Show┬аdominated the American consciousness.
Henry Bushkin was CarsonтАЩs best friend and lawyer during that period, and his book is a tautly rendered and remarkably nuanced portrait of Carson, revealing not only how he truly was, but why. Bushkin explains why Carson, a voracious (and very talented) womanizer, felt he always had to be married; why he couldnтАЩt visit his son in the hospital and wouldnтАЩt attend his motherтАЩs funeral; and much more.┬аJohnny Carson┬аis by turns shocking, poignant, and uproarious тАФ written with a novelistтАЩs eye for detail, a screenwriterтАЩs ear for dialogue, and a knack for comic timing that Carson himself would relish.
тАЬA fascinating book about a complex man.тАЭ тАФ┬аPittsburgh Post-Gazette
тАЬLike┬аThe Tonight Show, the book has many a merry moment . . . [Johnny Carson] was also one of a kind, and is missed. This book brings a bit of him back.тАЭ тАФ┬аSt. Louis Post-Dispatch
A┬аPeople┬аmagazine Top Ten Book of the Year