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. challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career. 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. This book is.”īeginning in early childhood, Couric was inspired by her journalist father to pursue the career he loved but couldn’t afford to stay in. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too.

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. 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. This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name.įor more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world.

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