Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels - Softcover

Mitchell, Andrea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143038737 ISBN 13: 9780143038733

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2006

Synopsis

No TV reporter today is more respected than NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. She’s covered stories from Jonestown to the fall of the Berlin Wall, gotten unexpected answers from such interviewees as Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton, and balanced her high-wire career with a very public marriage to former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Dr. Alan Greenspan. Mitchell’s candid, funny, and riveting memoir is filled with unprecedented behind-the-scenes views of the television news industry and official Washington. A classic of contemporary journalism by a woman who has taken on her profession’s entire old-boy network, Talking Back deserves a place on the shelf alongside the memoirs of Hillary Clinton and Katherine Graham.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"There is no human being better at what she does than Andrea Mitchell - and Talking Back shows us how it all happened. This absorbing memoir is really three books in one. It is the life story of one of the most accomplished women in America, a high-level window on a pivotal era in history and a powerful reminder to American women just starting out in their careers of how much they owe Mitchell and other pathbreakers for showing the way."
-Michael Beschloss

"Andrea Mitchell is smart, feisty and irreverent - and so is this book!"
-Tim Russert

About the Author:

Andrea Mitchell has been chief foreign correspondent for NBC since 1994, reporting for broadcasts such as NBC Nightly News, Today, and Meet the Press. Previously she was NBC’s chief White House correspondent and has reported on presidential politics since 1972.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143038737
• ISBN 13: 9780143038733
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496