Many of the young viewers who tuned into the November 1969 premiere of Sesame Street are now the grandparents of children just beginning to watch this astonishingly resilient show. The longest-running children's program in American television history has not only outlived numerous controversies; it has been the inspiration for dozens of international spin-offs featuring characters with names like Zeliboba, Pong Papong, and Max Meiker. Michael Davis's Street Gang traces the evolution of Sesame Street from its first inkling to the new millennium. The cast members populating this complete history include not only Bert and Ernie and Oscar the Grouch but also Muppets creator Jim Henson and even Richard Milhouse Nixon.