In the Arsenio Hall memoir Arsenio: A Memoir, the groundbreaking late-night host reflects on the journey that changed television.

For millions of viewers, Arsenio Hall brought something different to television at a time when late-night still largely belonged to older, established personalities following the template created by Steve Allen, refined by Jack Paar, and perfected by Johnny Carson.

Hall admired Carson so much that, as a child, he not only dreamed of hosting a late-night show someday — he wanted the desk too. Now, in Arsenio: A Memoir, written with Alan Eisenstock, Hall pulls back the curtain on the long and often unpredictable road that took him from a basement magic show in Cleveland to one of the most influential late-night television programs of its era.

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