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A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, this “humorous, informative, and poignant book” celebrates the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America’s most iconic television programs and “shows how the magic was created” (Library Journal).

Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first met on Broadway in the…

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If you live in the United States, you’re probably familiar with The Andy Griffith Show.

Launched in the 1950s, its reruns continue to entertain and endear everyone. They harken back to small-town America where life was simple. Andy Griffith and Don Knotts portrayed the main characters, Sheriff Andy Taylor and his deputy Barney Fife, with so much skill that even today, the scenes are as funny as they were back then.

This book is a biography of the two men who were friends for more than 50 years, a bro-mance before there was such a word. In any other time…

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