From Rags to Riches

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

In 1933, when Ralph Baruch was nine years old, his family fled Frankfurt, because of growing Nazi restrictions, and eventually settled in New York City. Baruch got his first job at a footwear factory in Brooklyn, but eventually rose to become a group president at CBS before becoming Viacom’s first CEO. Television Tightrope is the story of his rise to fame and fortune in the entertainment industry.

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