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A Memoir

by Barbara Walters (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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My mother, Dena Seletsky, met my father, Lou Walters, at a charity dance in Boston in 1919.

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1. Lou, Dena, and My Princess Grandmother
2. My Childhood
3. "Skinnymalinkydink"
4. Sixty-three Cents
5. The Pistachio Green House
6. New York, New York
7. Miami at War
8. "A very normal girl"
9. Sarah Lawrence
10. Television 101
11. Bad Choices
12. It Gets Worse
13. Television 102 and a Strange Marriage Proposal
14. Passage to India
15. A Funeral and a Wedding
16. Thirteen Weeks to Thirteen Years
17. Becoming Barbara Walters
18. Garland, Capote, Rose Kenndy, and Princess Grace
19. Born in My Heart
20. Dean Rusk, Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, and Prince Philip
21. Sad Times in Florida
22. Winning Nixon, Losing Sinatra
23. Exit Hugh, Enter McGee
24. Marriage On the Rocks
25. Historic Journey: China with Nixon
26. A Dead Marriage and the Dead Sea
27. Resignation in Washington. Victory in New York
28. Fun and Games in Washington
29. Special Men in My Life
30. Egypt, Israel, and Hola, Castro!
31. The Million-Dollar Baby
32. "Don't let the bastards get you down"
33. Thank Heaven! The Specials
34. Finally, Fidel
35. The Historic Interview: Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin
36. Exit Harry, Enter Hugh
37. Heartbreak and a New Beginning
38. The Hardest Chapter to Write
39. 9/11 and Nothing Else Matters
40. Presidents and First Ladies: Forty Years Inside the White House
41. Heads of State: The Good, the Bad and the Mad
42. Adventures with the Most Mysterious Men
43. Murderers
44. Uncommon Criminals
45. Over Again, Never Again
46. Celebrities Who Affected My Life
47. Monica
48. The View
49. Exit
50. To Be Continued...

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  1. Barbara Walters (Author)

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