Audition
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Barbara Walters
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 977
ISBN-13: 9780739327302
Subjects: Journalists; Biography
Description: The television journalist chronicles the people, events, and forces that have shaped her life, discussing her relationships, her struggle to succeed in a man's world, and the interviews she has conducted during her career.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Lou, Dena, and my princess grandmother; title: My childhood; title: "Skinnymalinkydink"; title: Sixty-three cents; title: The pistachio green house; title: New York, New York; title: Miami at war; title: "A very normal girl"; title: Sarah Lawrence; title: Television 101; title: Bad choices; title: It gets worse; title: Television 102 and a strange marriage proposal; title: Passage to India; title: A funeral and a wedding; title: Thirteen weeks to thirteen years; title: Becoming Barbara Walters; title: Garland, Capote, Rose Kennedy, and Princess Grace; title: Born in my heart; title: Dean Rusk, Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, and Prince Philip; title: Sad times in Florida; title: Winning Nixon, losing Sinatra; title: Exit Hugh, enter McGee; title: Marriage on the rocks; title: Historic journey : China with Nixon; title: A dead marriage and the Dead Sea; title: Resignation in Washington. Victory in New York; title: Fun and games in Washington; title: Special men in my life; title: Egypt, Israel, and ¡Hola, Castro!; title: The million-dollar baby; title: "Don't let the bastards get you down"; title: Thank heaven! The Specials; title: Finally, Fidel; title: The historic interview : Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin; title: Exit Harry, enter Hugh; title: Heartbreak and a new beginning; title: The hardest chapter to write; title: 9/11 and nothing else matters; title: Presidents and first ladies : forty years inside the White House; title: Heads of state : the good, the bad, and the mad; title: Adventures with the most mysterious men; title: Murderers; title: Uncommon criminals; title: Over again, never again; title: Celebrities who affected my life; title: Monica; title: The View; title: Exit; title: To be continued ...