Difficult Men [RARE BOOKS]

While the nerworks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows on the cable charinels dramatically stretched television’s narrative inventiveness, emotional resonance, and artistic – shows such as The Wire, The Sopranas, Mad Men, Deadwood, The Shield, and more tackled issues of life and death, love and sexuality, addiction, race, violence, and existential boredom.

Television shows became the place to go to see stories of the triumph and betrayals of the American Dream at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Difficult Men features extensive interviews with all the major players including David Chase (The Sopranos), David Simon and Ed Burns (The Wire), Matthew Weiner and Jon Hamm (Mad Men),