Going there / Katie Couric.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Couric, Katie, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Couric, Katie, 1957-.

Couric, Katie.

Television personalities--United States--Biography.

Television personalities.

Television news anchors.

United States.

Television news anchors--United States--Biogrpahy.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 510 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2021]

Summary:

Heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest, Going There is the deeply personal life story of a girl next door turned household name. -- For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she's never shared, until now. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, "Television can put you in a box; the flat-screen can flatten. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. This book is." Beginning in early childhood, Couric was inspired by her journalist father to pursue the career he loved but couldn't afford to stay in. Balancing her vivacious, outgoing personality with her desire to be taken seriously, she overcame every obstacle in her way: insecurity, an eating disorder, being typecast, sexism ... challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career. Couric talks candidly about adjusting to sudden fame after her astonishing rise to co-anchor of the TODAY show, and guides us through the most momentous events and news stories of the era, to which she had a front-row seat: Rodney King, Anita Hill, Columbine, the death of Princess Diana, 9/11, the Iraq War ... In every instance, she relentlessly pursued the facts, ruffling more than a few feathers along the way. She also recalls in vivid and sometimes lurid detail the intense pressure on female anchors to snag the latest "get"--often sensational tabloid stories like Jon Benet Ramsey, Tonya Harding, and OJ Simpson. Couric's position as one of the leading lights of her profession was shadowed by the shock and trauma of losing her husband to stage 4 colon cancer when he was just 42, leaving her a widow and single mom to two daughters, 6 and 2. The death of her sister Emily, just three years later, brought yet more trauma--and an unwavering commitment to cancer awareness and research, one of her proudest accomplishments. Couric is unsparing in the details of her historic move to the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News --a world rife with sexism and misogyny. Her "welcome" was even more hostile at 60 Minutes, an unrepentant boys club that engaged in outright hazing of even the most established women. In the wake of the MeToo movement, Couric shares her clear-eyed reckoning with gender inequality and predatory behavior in the workplace, and downfall of Matt Lauer--a colleague she had trusted and respected for more than a decade. Couric also talks about the challenge of finding love again, with all the hilarity, false-starts, and drama that search entailed, before finding her midlife Mr. Right. Something she has never discussed publicly--why her second marriage almost didn't happen. If you thought you knew Katie Couric, think again. Going There is the fast-paced, emotional, riveting story of a thoroughly modern woman, whose journey took her from humble origins to superstardom. In these pages, you will find a friend, a confidante, a role model, a survivor whose lessons about life will enrich your own.

Contents:

Part I p. 7

1 Moxie p. 9

2 ABC News, May I Help Yon? p. 13

3 Let 'Em Know You're There p. 18

4 Chicken Noodle News p. 27

5 Binge, Purge, Repeat p. 32

6 Who Is That Girl? p. 39

7 The State of the Onion p. 43

8 Breast Size p. 50

9 Rainy Days and Mondays p. 56

10 Good Night, David! Good Night, Chet! p. 58

11 Hot, Hot, Hot p. 65

12 Nice Writing, Ms. Couric p. 71

13 Finding Ted p. 80

14 I Can Do This p. 89

15 The E-Ring p. 98

16 Velveeta p. 103

17 A Two-Bagger p. 111

18 Horny Toads p. 118

19 I Am Woman p. 123

20 Katherine or Katie p. 130

21 A Defiant Mop p. 133

22 It's a Girl! p. 139

23 Brains After Babies p. 143

24 Paging Mary Poppins p. 150

25 Perky p. 156

26 Florence and Normandie p. 170

27 The Coast of Casablanca p. 179

28 Movin' Out p. 186

29 Martha, Dear Martha p. 194

Part II p. 205

30 Jay p. 207

31 Mr. Katie Couric p. 214

32 "Shit." p. 219

33 The Worry Cup p. 223

34 "Katie's Private Pain" p. 227

35 Diana p. 233

36 A Pony for Ellie p. 238

37 Saturday Morning p. 245

38 Ashokan Farewell p. 249

39 From Hope to Hope p. 259

40 Safe, Sane, and Secure p. 267

41 The Aloneness p. 271

42 "There's Been a Shooting" p. 278

43 The Nicest Pal a Guy Could Have p. 287

Part III p. 291

44 The Way It Was p. 293

45 Affable Eva Braun p. 300

46 The Booking Wars p. 309

47 Tom-Tom p. 323

48 The Couric Effect p. 330

49 Emily p. 337

50 Churro'd p. 344

51 "TODAY, Tuesday, September 11th, 2001" p. 348

52 WWED? p. 357

53 Persona Non Grata p. 362

54 Dear Katie p. 368

55 Probing Colins p. 375

56 One Big-Ass Rabbit p. 383

57 Goodbye from Kansas! p. 397

Part IV p. 403

58 The Dairy Depot p. 405

59 Tick Tick Tick Tick p. 414

60 KC and the Sunshine Band p. 417

61 ... And I'm Katie Couric p. 424

62 She's Toast p. 431

63 So Hawt p. 436

64 Lasagna Was Served p. 440

65 The Wisdom of Samantha p. 449

66 The Fall of Rome p. 454

67 Business Trip p. 461

68 The Twitter p. 470

69 Damned If You Do p. 479

70 If Jay Were Here p. 485

71 Hockey Mom p. 488

72 You Betcha p. 495

73 Over Un-Easy p. 505

74 Take This Job and Shove It p. 513

75 A Chap Named Parkinson p. 524

76 Family Feud p. 530

Part V p. 535

77 Nancy Knows p. 537

78 That Molner Guy p. 541

79 Are You Ready for This Day? p. 550

80 Flop Sweat p. 566

81 The Brady Bunch p. 577

82 Déjà Vu p. 584

83 "And YOU Get a Vacuum!" p. 592

84 I Will p. 597

85 Labor Day p. 603

86 #Ladydouchebag p. 612

87 Palooza on the Plaza p. 619

88 Fire! Fire! p. 623

Part VI p. 631

89 The Last Supper p. 633

90 No Bueno p. 640

91 Morning Has Broken p. 644

92 Hero to Zero p. 651

93 Addie p. 656

94 The Leon Trotsky of 30 Rock p. 659

95 I'm Gonna Miss This p. 663

96 The System p. 670

97 Bleeding Purple p. 675

98 Gone with the Wind p. 686

99 It's C-o-u-r-i-c p. 700.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780316535861

0316535869