In June 1987, I was booked to appear as a guest on an ABC network talk radio program. The host that day was Tom Snyder. Ushered into the on air studio, I was immediately struck by Snyder's warm and friendly welcome...Tom Snyder was a major figure in television. After the societal upheavals of the 1960s Snyder was a different kind of media figure who heralded a new era, bridging the old black-and-white, teletype clattering in the background, Cronkite/Huntley/Brinkley style of TV presentation and the new, full color, hyper-confessional Oprah-esque world that would come to dominate the scene starting in the...