Irwin Shaw's Rich man, poor man. Parts 1-5 / script by Dean Riesner. Parts 1-5 (May 23, 1972-Aug. 10, 1973)

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Irwin Shaw's Rich man, poor man. Parts 1-5 / script by Dean Riesner. Parts 1-5 (May 23, 1972-Aug. 10, 1973)

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The miniseries shown on ABC, based on the Irwin Shaw novel, that chronicles the lives of the Jordache family, from VE-Day 1945 through the next 22 years.

5 v. ; 28 cm.

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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In 1972 television reporter and talk show host Geraldo Rivera, then a budding journalist working for WABC-New York's Eyewitness News, conducted a series of investigations at the Willowbrook State School for the Mentally Retarded, on Staten Island. His work resulted in a televised documentary entitled "Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace" which exposed the deplorable conditions and the rampant abuse and neglect of the residents. The report won a Peabody Award and led to changes in state law and ...

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Author Irwin Shaw was born in New York and educated at Brooklyn College; after graduation he wrote for radio serials to help support his destitute family. He became a successful playwright, which led to work on various movies, including both original screenplays and adaptations. He gradually shifted his emphasis to short stories, and produced a series of acclaimed stories for New Yorker and other periodicals. He was a non-combatant in World War II but, traveling with a filmmaking unit, he witnes...