Street gang : the complete history of Sesame Street

When I was in grad school, I signed up for a class called Death and Literature.  The description sounded awesome and I was being a bit morbid.  What it turned out to be was a philosophy class in literature class clothing, which resulted in me reading Heidegger for weeks at a time, only occasionally broken up by "She" or "Dracula."  The few moments of awesomeness did not make up for the fact that I was dragged through "Being and Time."  And that's what reading "Street Gang" is like.

This is not a complete history of Sesame Street.  This is a slog through the personal histories of several of the key players who created Sesame Street: Joan Ganz Cooney, Jon Stone, David Connell, Sam Gibbon, and Jim Henson.  And when I saw histories, I mean you learn about their parents' upbringing, their upbringing, schooling, weird relationships, everything!  This book is hyper-detailed, bogging it down.  What isn't about family history is about how the show got funded, which has the potential to be interesting if we weren't forced to walk through every step of the process.  And, of course, we do.  You finally get to the genesis of the show and its characters and stories in Chapter 12... so if you want just that, skip to page 166. 

To finish my complaint on the book's completeness, it skims a fair amount of the 1980s (compared to the detail of earlier chapters) and gives very little info on the mid-1990s and beyond.  This is probably because management changed at the CTW and Davis does not fawn over these people.  Elmo is the most-covered subject during this time period.

I'd also have to say that the writing structure is incredibly awkward.  Readers are flung forward and backward and forward again in time within the span of a few paragraphs, all usually to tell a story that usually doesn't need telling.  Like did I need to know that Cooney's personal assistant attended her abusive ex-husband's funeral for her, so she could report back to her boss on how it went?  Or should the moment Jane Henson steps forward to speak and Jim Henson's funeral really be the time Davis first brings up that they had had marital problems? 

That's not to say that there aren't fascinating stories about Sesame Street, its creation, and its creators.  The book is full of them, but you have to be patient and dig around to get them, and I'm not sure it's really worth your time.  You do gain an appreciation for how ground-breaking this series was and still is.  You also wonder if maybe it was a requirement that you have a terminal illness in your future, as much of the end of the book is dedicated to all the contributors to the show who died of cancer, AIDs, or other diseases.  It's kind of frightening how many people involved in the show have died. 

I can't say that I really recommend this book.  Mostly, I recommend the middle of this book.  Unless you're looking for a history and finances lesson, with some Muppets thrown in for good measure.

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