Mike Wallace Asks: Highlights from 46 Controversial Interviews

by Mike Wallace, Charles Preston (Editor), Edward A. Hamilton (Editor)

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1958

About the author

Myron Leon Wallace was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. Known for his investigative journalism, he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspondents featured on CBS news program 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008. He is the father of Chris Wallace.
Wallace interviewed many politicians, celebrities, and academics, such as Tina Turner, Joseph Bonanno, Vladimir Horowitz, Bobby Fischer, Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, Pearl S. Buck, Deng Xiaoping, Ronald Reagan, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Jiang Zemin, Ruhollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Frank Lloyd Wright, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Louis Farrakhan, Manuel Noriega, John Nash, Gordon B. Hinckley, Vladimir Putin, Barbra Streisand, Salvador Dalí, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, William Carlos Williams, Mickey Cohen, Roy Cohn, Dean Reed, Jimmy Fratianno, Morgan Freeman, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, and Ayn Rand.

Reviews

[TrumanCoyote · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weird '50's hodgepodge. With White Mollusc being appallingly conformist and small-minded, we talk with Nobel prize winners, gangsters...and the occasional stripper. The thing on one David Hawkins was hard to believe even after I read it; then there was Frank Lloyd Wright, babbling on like Pete Townshend and Michael Stipe combined. No one much back then seemed to believe in what they were supposed to; you could sense the thing starting to boil over already.