McGraw Meets the Press
by Judy Quinn -- Publishers Weekly, 5/5/1997
Growing up in Buffalo, N.Y., Tim Russert, now 46, remembers watching a show called "Meet the Press" on a flickering black-and-white TV, never dreaming, he told PW, that he'd one day be the moderator of what he calls "a national treasure." Now Russert, in his fifth year as host of the longest-running program on network television, has the honor of writing the foreword to Meet the Press: 50 Years of History in the Making, a commemorative book to be published by McGraw-Hill on November 6, the golden anniversary air date of the NBC News show. Russert told PW that the book will be divided into decades, and will include rare photographs and show transcripts (such as President Carter's announcement on the show of the Olympics boycott), as well as sidebars from the likes of Bob Dole, who's appeared more often than anyone. McGraw-Hill plans a 75,000 first printing and among the promo plans are a spot on "Today" as well as a special anniversary-day broadcast of "Meet the Press," perhaps direct from the White House.
