Background
Nachman, Gerald Weil was born on January 13, 1938 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of Leonard Calvert and Isabel (Weil) Nachman.
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In the late 1920s radio exploded almost overnight into being America's dominant entertainment, just as television would do twenty-five years later. Gerald Nachman, himself a product of the radio years, takes us back to the heyday of radio, bringing to life the great performers and shows, as well as the not-so-great and not-great-at-all. Nachman analyzes the many genres that radio exploited or invented, from the soap opera to the sitcom to the quiz show, zooming in to study closely key performers like Jack Benny, Bob Hope, and Fred Allen. Raised on Radio is a generous, instructive, and sinfully readable salute to an extraordinary American phenomenon.
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Nachman, Gerald Weil was born on January 13, 1938 in Oakland, California, United States. Son of Leonard Calvert and Isabel (Weil) Nachman.
Merritt College, Associate of Arts, 1958.
Journalism, San Jose State University, Bachelor of Arts, 1960.
1963 television writer for the San Jose Mercury News. 1963-1966 feature writer for the New York Post 1966-1971 theater and film writer for the Oakland Tribune 1972–1979 columnist, syndicated by the New York Daily News 1979-1993 entertainment and theater writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. ?-present panelist, Minds Over Matter, KALW Anthologies Quirks (1979) Aftershocks (1993) New Wrinkles (2002).
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Married Mary Campbell McGeachy, September 3, 1966 (divorced 1979).