Audition : a memoir / Barbara Walters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walters, Barbara, 1929-2022.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walters, Barbara, 1929-2022.

Walters, Barbara.

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 612 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : A.A. Knopf, 2008.

Summary:

After more than forty years of interviewing celebrities of all kinds, the most important woman in the history of television journalism has turned her gift for examination onto herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life. Her father's risk-taking lifestyle gave Barbara her first taste of glamour, but Lou Walters didn't just make fortunes--he also lost them. Barbara's roller-coaster childhood played a large part in the choices she made as she grew up: the friendships, the marriages she tried to make work. Ultimately, her drive, with a decent amount of luck, got her a career in television. Barbara has spent a lifetime auditioning: for the networks, for the viewers, for the most famous people in the world, and even for her own daughter, with whom she has had a difficult relationship. This book is her final audition, as she opens up both her private and public lives.--From publisher description.

Contents:

Lou, Dena, and my princess grandmother

My childhood

"Skinnymalinkydink"

Sixty-three cents

The pistachio green house

New York, New York

Miami at war

"A very normal girl"

Sarah Lawrence

Television 101

Bad choices

It gets worse

Television 102 and a strange marriage proposal

Passage to India

A funeral and a wedding

Thirteen weeks to thirteen years

Becoming Barbara Walters

Garland, Capote, Rose Kennedy, and Princess Grace

Born in my heart

Dean Rusk, Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, and Prince Philip

Sad times in Florida

Winning Nixon, losing Sinatra

Exit Hugh, enter McGee

Marriage on the rocks

Historic journey : China with Nixon

A dead marriage and the Dead Sea

Resignation in Washington. Victory in New York

Fun and games in Washington

Special men in my life

Egypt, Israel, and ¡Hola, Castro!

The million-dollar baby

"Don't let the bastards get you down"

Thank heaven! The Specials

Finally, Fidel

The historic interview : Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin

Exit Harry, enter Hugh

Heartbreak and a new beginning

The hardest chapter to write

9/11 and nothing else matters

Presidents and first ladies : forty years inside the White House

Heads of state : the good, the bad, and the mad

Adventures with the most mysterious men

Murderers

Uncommon criminals

Over again, never again

Celebrities who affected my life

Monica

The View

Exit

To be continued ...

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780307266460

030726646X

OCLC:

176951785

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