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MAD AS HELL: How 60 Minutes Took on the Powerful and Made Television History
A gripping behind-the-scenes story from inside one of the most influential news programs in American history.
For almost sixty years, every Sunday night at seven o’clock sharp, America has stopped what it was doing to hear instantly recognizable the tick tock that introduces 60 Minutes. At its peak, this news show was the most powerful hour on television, drawing as many as fifty million viewers a week. Presidents watched. CEOs braced themselves. Ordinary citizens—wronged, ignored, or silenced—found a voice.
In Mad as Hell, a producer from the program’s golden years takes readers deep inside the broadcast that reshaped television journalism. Working alongside Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, and executive producer Don Hewitt, Harry Moses tells how a scrappy news experiment morphed into a national institution, and how television at its best could hold the powerful to account.
For almost sixty years, every Sunday night at seven o’clock sharp, America has stopped what it was doing to hear instantly recognizable the tick tock that introduces 60 Minutes. At its peak, this news show was the most powerful hour on television, drawing as many as fifty million viewers a week. Presidents watched. CEOs braced themselves. Ordinary citizens—wronged, ignored, or silenced—found a voice.
In Mad as Hell, a producer from the program’s golden years takes readers deep inside the broadcast that reshaped television journalism. Working alongside Mike Wallace, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, and executive producer Don Hewitt, Harry Moses tells how a scrappy news experiment morphed into a national institution, and how television at its best could hold the powerful to account.
254 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 23, 2026
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September 24, 2026
A very enjoyable book about documentary making and the subjects of some of them although not a history of 60 Minutes by any stretch. A memory of a time where journalism had a budget and really made an impact.
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