I should be dead
Subtitle: my life surviving politics, TV, and addiction
By: Bob Beckel with John David Mann
Contributors: Mann, John David, author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780316347754
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Political consultants; Television personalities; Recovering addicts; Biography
Description: "From popular TV personality Bob Beckel, a deeply moving, redemptive memoir about his life as a political operative and diplomat, his long struggle with alcohol and drugs, and his unlikely journey to finding faith. Growing up poor in an abusive home, Bob Beckel learned to be a survivor: to avoid conflict, mask his feelings, and to lie--all skills that served him well in Washington, where he would become the youngest-ever Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and manage Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign. But Beckel was living a double life. On January 20, 2001--George W. Bush's first Inauguration Day--he hit rock bottom, waking up in the psych ward. Written with captivating honesty, Beckel chronicles how his addictions nearly killed him until he found help in an unexpected ally, conservative Cal Thomas, who helped him find faith, get sober, and get his life back on track"--
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: January 20, 2001; title: Surviving Childhood; title: Fighting for the Cause; title: Capitol Cops and Whores; title: Campaign Years; title: In the White House; title: Where's the Beef?; title: TV Lights; title: Crash and Burn; title: Hitting Bottom; title: Grace; title: The Five; title: Beyond Surviving; title: Epilogue.