The trailblazing late-night show host Johnny Carson's life is pieced together in a new biography "Carson ... During the '50s ...

Carson the Magnificent” delivers the famous talk-show host in full while keeping the mystery of what made him tick alive ...

Carson pioneered a new style of late-night hosting—relaxed, improvisatory, risk-averse, and inscrutable.

The new biography “Carson the Magnificent” written by Bill Zehme (who finished the book before he died in 2023) with Mike Thomas examines how the famous late-night host behaved around his spouses, ...

"Carson the Magnificent," by Bill Zehme with Mike Thomas. (Simon & Schuster/TNS) For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson was the last face millions of viewers saw ...

For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson was the last face millions of viewers saw before they closed ...

THOMAS: I think Johnny Carson was - as the great Bill Carter ... SIMON: And not interested in talking to his children. THOMAS: And then he says, what did they have that I didn't have?

The trailblazing late-night show host Johnny Carson's life is pieced together in a new biography "Carson the Magnificent." For decades, Carson dominated late-night television with "The Tonight ...

THOMAS: I think Johnny Carson was - as the great Bill Carter ... SIMON: And not interested in talking to his children. THOMAS: And then he says, what did they have that I didn't have? And it was ...