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This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood ReviewHow's this for a life change: you arrange logistics for the President's trip to Texas in 1963, end up in the famous photo of President Johnson being sworn in, end up LIVING in President's Johnson's residence for a month and become his chief aide, how's that? Well, if that's not enough, within 3 years become president of the Motion Pictures Industry roundtable of executives also responsible for lobby work.
Such is the life of Jack Valenti, an always engaging personality on TV, this book backs up that persona in spades. After being a WWII pilot, the U of Houston grad gets in the Harvard MBA program which sets him on his course. After early life set-up the book focuses on his years in the White House and close relationship with Pres. Johnson before focusing more than half the book on Hollywood, his job and his relationships. At the end, he revisits his memories of famous people that he loved or admired: Jackie Kennedy, Warren Buffet, Lew Wasserman, Kirk Douglas, Tom Cruise, etc. The list is long and illustrious, and while very interesting, this is the one part of the book that suffers from massive name-dropping.
I can't recommend this book higher from a great American. If you have interest in politics or pop culture in the 2nd half of the 20th century, this book is a must read. But, if you want to read the life story of a truly engaging, friendly, family man then it is definitely for you. My condolences to the family on the unexpected death of Jack Valenti shortly after completion of the book.
This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood Overview"[Jack Valenti] lived his life as a gentleman and patriot....He might have been the last of the breed." —New York TimesAn Influential and Varied LifeThe list of notable names—people that Jack Valenti knew and with whom he worked—is astonishing. Aside from LBJ, there were Jack and Bobby Kennedy, Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Robert McNamara, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, Cary Grant, Lew Wasserman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jack Nicholson, Michael Douglas, Warren Beatty, and Bill Clinton, to begin a very long list. This Time, This Place is a candid, unforgettable memoir of the life of an extraordinary key political player and Hollywood rainmaker. It is also a sweeping and important historical record, written by a brilliantly successful man who helped shape politics and entertainment in the second half of the twentieth century, and who always found himself at the center of any storm. "A wonderful story." —International Herald Tribune"[Valenti] offers a rousing account of his WWII bombing missions, JFK's assassination (he was in the motorcade), and his three-year stint as one of LBJ's closest aides." —Entertainment Weekly"Only the silver screen can really do justice to a man who is bigger than life, moved easily among the stars of politics and Hollywood, and always kept his feet on the ground. An Oscar-deserving lifetime achievement, if ever there was one." —Bill Moyers

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