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An illuminating biography of Desi Arnaz, the visionary, trailblazing Cuban American who revolutionized television and brought laughter to millions as Lucille Ball's beloved husband on I Love Lucy, leaving a remarkable legacy that continues to influence American culture today.
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When Americans think of Desi Arnaz, they think of him and Lucille Ball, his real-life wife, and their fictional creations, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo of I Love Lucy. That ground-breaking filmed TV sitcom from the early 1950s set the model that TV sitcoms largely follow to this day.
Much praise has been heaped, deservedly, on Ball over the years, but Arnaz seems to have faded into the background. This biography aims at balancing that equation. While he didn’t actually “invent” television, Arnaz did, in many ways, invent the American TV landscape that ruled the airways through the broadcast era of…
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