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Going there

Call Number

  • 921 C859 (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

Physical Description

xi, 510 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

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."--Provided by publisher.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Moxie
  • ABC News, may I help you?
  • Let 'em know you're there
  • Chicken noodle news
  • Binge, purge, repeat
  • Who is that girl?
  • The state of the onion
  • Breast size
  • Rainy days and Mondays
  • Good night, David! Good night, Chet!
  • Hot, hot, hot
  • Nice writing, Ms. Couric
  • Finding Ted
  • I can do this
  • The E-ring
  • Velveeta
  • A two-bagger
  • Horny toads
  • I am woman
  • Katherine or Katie
  • A defiant mop
  • It's a girl!
  • Brains after babies
  • Paging Mary Poppins
  • Perky
  • Florence and Normandie
  • The coast of Casablanca
  • Movin' out
  • Martha, dear Martha
  • Jay
  • Mr. Katie Couric
  • "Shit."
  • The worry cup
  • "Katie's private pain"
  • Diana
  • A pony for Ellie
  • Saturday morning
  • Ashokan farewell
  • From hope to hope
  • Safe, sane, and secure
  • The aloneness
  • "There's been a shooting"
  • The nicest pal a guy could have
  • The way it was
  • Affable Eva Braun
  • The booking wars
  • Tom-tom
  • The Couric effect
  • Emily
  • Churro'd
  • "Today, Tuesday, September 11, 2001"
  • WWED?
  • Persona non grata
  • Dear Katie
  • Probing Colins
  • One big-ass rabbit
  • Goodbye from Kansas!
  • The dairy depot
  • Tick tick tick tick
  • KC and the sunshine band
  • ...And I'm Katie Couric
  • She's toast
  • So hawt
  • Lasagna was served
  • The wisdom of Samantha
  • The fall of Rome
  • Business trip
  • The twitter
  • Damned if you do
  • If Jay were here
  • Hockey mom
  • You betcha
  • Over un-easy
  • Take this job and shove it
  • A chap named Parkinson
  • Family feud
  • Nancy knows
  • That Molner guy
  • Are you ready for this day?
  • Flop sweat
  • The Brady bunch
  • Déjà vu
  • "An you get a vacuum!"
  • I will
  • Labor day
  • #Ladydouchebag
  • Palooza on the plaza
  • Fire! Fire!
  • The last supper
  • No bueno
  • Morning has broken
  • Hero to zero
  • Addie
  • The Leon Trotsky of 30 rock
  • I'm gonna miss this
  • The system
  • Bleeding purple
  • Gone with the wind
  • It's C-o-u-r-i-c
  • Epilogue.

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