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02600aam a2200337 i 4500 001 97AD39E2223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 008 210515t20212021nyua 000 0deng d 020 $a 163758167X 020 $a 9781637581674 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1250514354 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d ZQP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d VP@ $d OCLCO $d UAP $d OCLCO $d AZZPT $d WIS $d OCL $d QS3 $d OCLCO $d OCLCL $d SILO 050 4 $a PN4874.M3693 $b A3 2021 050 4 $a PN4874.M34 $b M36 2021 082 04 $a 792.23079 $2 23 100 1 $a McGarr, Cappy, $e author. 245 14 $a The man who made Mark Twain famous : $b stories from the Kennedy Center, the White House, and other comedy venues / $c Cappy McGarr ; [foreword by Ken Burns]. 260 $a New York : $b Savio Republic, an imprint of Post Hill Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 271 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 505 0 $a Foreword / by Ken Burns -- Tawin Prize winners on the Twain Prize -- Preamble -- Delirious in the Oval Office -- Everybody ready, except Cappy -- Apparently fairly bright -- As goober goes, so goes the station -- Blind leading the blind -- An unidentified aide -- The souffleÌ never rises -- The Goldman age -- Senator, you're no Lloyd Bentsen -- Landslide Daschle -- Follies, legislative and rabbinical -- Do it for Dallas -- Waiting for Perot -- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Daschle -- The Mark Twain Prize -- Winter is coming/Carl's hour -- We can still be funny -- Broadcasting legends of broadcasting -- Hopes Dasched -- A Texan and two New Yorkers -- Tragedy after tragedy in comedy -- Twain in the tweens -- The one that got away -- Carol Burnett and the car boy -- The coup of Bill Murray -- The king of late night and the queen of sitcoms -- Chappelle's prize -- The Gershwin Prize -- In performance at the White House -- Navy Seal of approval -- Afterthoughts. 520 $a "In The Man Who Made Mark Twain Famous, Cappy McGarr shares how he became an Emmy-nominated founder/executive producer of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and got involved in national politics--all with charming southern style and a self-deprecating sense of humor." -- Back cover. 600 10 $a McGarr, Cappy. 650 0 $a Comedy $x Awards $z United States. 650 0 $a Award presentations $z United States. 650 0 $a Businessmen $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Burns, Ken, $d 1953- $e writer of foreword. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240604014741.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=97AD39E2223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search