Book description
Published to satisfy the massive renewed interest in Sir David Frost's
astounding feat of journalism following the huge success of the
eponymous West End and Broadway play, Frost/Nixon tells the
extraordinary story of how Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of
his career. When he first conceived the idea of interviewing Richard
Nixon and trying to bring the ex-President to confront his past, he was
told on all sides that the project would never get off the ground.
Nobody believed that Nixon would agree to Frost's editorial control, or
even to talk about Watergate at all. Yet in the end the project
succeeded, and the series drew larger audiences than any news programme
ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world.
Including hilarious tales of the people he encountered along the way and
fascinating insights into the making of the television series itself,
this is Sir David's own story of his pursuit of disgraced ex-President
Richard Nixon - one that is no less revealing of his own toughness and
pertinacity than of the ex-President's elusiveness. Frost provides an
account of the only public trial that Nixon will ever have, and a
revelation of the man's character as it appeared in the stress of eleven
gruelling sessions before the cameras. Fully revised and updated with
historical perspective, and including transcripts of the edited
interviews, Frost/Nixon describes Sir David Frost's quest to produce one
of the most dramatic pieces of television ever broadcast.
Sir David Frost is the only person to have interviewed the last
seven presidents of the United States and the last six prime ministers
of Great Britain. He has received all the major television awards,
twice winning the Emmy Award for The David Frost Show in the US as
well as the BAFTA Fellowship in the UK, British television's highest
honour. He lives in London, Hampshire and on British Airways.
