Audition: A Memoir (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Barbara Walters
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Category: Book
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Rating:  242 reviews
Sales Rank: 86540
Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 992
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.9
ISBN: 0739327305
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.92
EAN: 9780739327302
ASIN: 0739327305
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
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Product Description
Young people starting out in television sometimes say to me: “I want to be you.” My stock reply is always: “Then you have to take the whole package.”
And now, at last, the most important woman in the history of television journalism gives us that “whole package,” in her inspiring and riveting memoir. After more than forty years of interviewing heads of state, world leaders, movie stars, criminals, murderers, inspirational figures, and celebrities of all kinds, Barbara Walters has turned her gift for examination onto herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life.
Barbara Walters’s perception of the world was formed at a very early age. Her father, Lou Walters, was the owner and creative mind behind the legendary Latin Quarter nightclub, and it was his risk-taking lifestyle that made Barbara aware of the ups and downs that can occur when someone is willing to take great risks.
The financial responsibility for her family, the fear, the love all played a large part in the choices she made as she grew up: the friendships she developed, the relationships she had, the marriages she tried to make work.
Ultimately, thanks to her drive, combined with a decent amount of luck, she began a career in television. And what a career it has been! Against great odds, Barbara has made it to the top of a male-dominated industry.
She has spent a lifetime auditioning, and this book, in some ways, is her final audition, as she fully opens up both her private and public lives. In doing so, she has given us a story that is heartbreaking and honest, surprising and fun, sometimes startling, and always fascinating.
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 Overplugged, but definitely worth a read December 11, 2008
BW drives me up the wall every damn time she plugs this freakin' book on the View. If it's not her, then it's Whoopi or Elisabeth. As much as it pisses me off, this book is worth a read. Of course the chapter covering the Star and Rosie controversies is here, but that's just the icing on the cake. I learned alot of things about Babs I never knew before, like her complicated but loving relationships with her mentally challenged sister and adopted daughter and all of her marriages. All 4 of them. The chapters about her many specials and interviews over the years are especially interesting. I was very surprised that BW "let her hair down" so to speak and revealed things like her interracial affair. So Miss BW isn't as squeaky clean as we thought, huh? I guess there's nothing more I can say that hasn't been said already. Pick it up!
Barbara December 1, 2008
I wish I could tell Barbara myself how much I liked her book. It sounds like she is sitting right there telling her memoir. Good read.
Magellan Maestro 4125 - is very nice November 29, 2008
Got this for my wife as an anniversary present, and she really loves it...
but the neighbors say to be careful because the suction cup that holds it is an invite to criminals
Wonderful book November 22, 2008
This is my second copy purchased. GREAT, warm book....like curling up with your fav quilt and having a cup of tea. I got the first to give as a gift and got so many raves from the recipient I decided to get a copy for myself. LOVED IT
 Barbara Walters Audition November 19, 2008
The book is an interesting journey in this womans life.Highly intertaining
but a bit long.Still a very good read.
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