Television is a Young Man's Game? I'm 94. Why Didn't Somebody Tell Me?

About the Book

This book is a chronicle of Petserson’s life in radio and television and the people he met along the way; John Steinbeck, Maxwell Anderson, Ralph Edwards, Meredith Wilson, Fred Astaire, Jesse Oppenheimer, Charlie Butterworth, Loretta Young, Fred and Portland Allen, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Frank Sinatra, Jeff Chandler, Bing Crosby, Kay Kyser, Dennis Day, Martin and Lewis, Placido Domingo, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Princess Grace etc. It also contains an in-depth description of his experiences writing South Pacific travel guides for Pan Am. (Tahiti, American and Western Samoa, Manu’a Islands of Coming of Age in Samoa fame, Fiji and New Caledonia.)

About the Author

Austin Peterson has worked as a writer/producer for KFRC and a writer for Fred Astaire, as well as working with Burns and Allen and Gulf\Screen Guild Theatre. In WWII Peterson was a Major, and Head of Programs for the Armed Forces Radio Service.