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