Meeting of Minds Vol 5 Author:Steve Allen The nation's television critics voted Steve Allen's scripts for "Meeting of Minds" as the "Best TV Writing of 1976-1977," together with James Costigan's "Eleanor and Franklin." Subsequently the series won the Peabody Award, an Encyclopaedia Britannica Award, the Film Advisory Board Award, and an offical endorsement by the National Education Ass... more »ociation. The present volume contains the Second Series of six scripts. The first two bring together the Marquis de Sade, eighteenth-century economist-jurist Cesare Beccaria, China's Dowager Empress Tz'u-hsi, and American abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who discuss their ideas and experiences. The second two shows feature Martin Luther, Voltaire, Plato, and Florence Nightingale. The final two include Sir Francis Bacon, Socrates, Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, and Susan B. Anthony. This is the second of four volumes of scripts from the First through the Fourth Series of "Meeting of Minds."« less