The subject was Abbie Hoffman, a former anti–Vietnam War activist turned fugitive from the law. Hoffman had been arrested in 1973 for selling three pounds of cocaine, a charge that could have brought him a life sentence.
And this is where more and more countries, including the United States, are finding themselves today. Over the last two decades, the number of active civil wars around the world has almost doubled.
A biography of the journalist who has made her mark as a producer, interviewer, and star of the Today program, and as the first woman to anchor the news for a national TV network.
OPRAH WINFREY. COMES TO MIND. LIFE AND AMAZING CAREER OF ONE BARBARA JILL WALTERS, A CHILD OF _. MASSACHUSETTS AND A CITIZEN OF THE LINITED STATES, " AND A JOURNALISTIC AMBASSADOR TO I THINK THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED HERE IS THAT "FEMALE ...
A biography of the first woman news anchor, discussing how she worked her way to the top in a business generally thought of as "for men only."
This is the eye-opening account of the woman who knew she had to break all the rules so she could break all the rules about what viewers deserved to know.
Here's the full story of how Star, then Rosie, then Whoopi tried to take over the show, while Barbara struggled to maintain control of it all, a modern-day Lear with her media-savvy daughters.
A biography of the television journalist whose interviewing skills have won her seven Emmy Awards in her thirty-year career.
His nonfiction books of diary entries include WRITE-IN: Diary ofa Congressional Candidate in Florida's Fourth Congressional District (2006), Summer in Brooklyn (2008), Autumn in Brooklyn (2009), Winter in Brooklyn (2010) and Spring in ...
A portrait of the first lady of television journalism explores Walters' relationship with her father, her sister, and her daughter, the men in her life, her most famous interviews, and her incredible career