Cosby: His Life and Times
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Cosby: His Life and Times (2014) is a biography of Bill Cosby by journalist Mark Whitaker. Whitaker traces Cosby's childhood in Philadelphia, his stand-up career and the cultural impact of The Cosby Show. Published before later public reckoning with sexual-assault allegations, it focuses on Cosby's rise as a comedian and television producer in an era of network dominance. It was widely reviewed as a full life of the entertainer.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is Mark Whitaker's "Cosby: His Life and Times." If you want an interesting sideways answer to the question, how did America elect its first black president, read this book? Whitaker's fascinating and well written biography reminds us that beyond politics and laws it is American culture that has changed over the last three decades and transformed race relations. Bill Cosby and "The Cosby Show" were crucial to that change.”