04690cam a2200841 4500 1262258086 TxAuBib 20240430120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781982197940 1982197943 4964e307-f4da-4476-bc00-f761f89eed99 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10057122 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Page, Susan. The Rulebreaker [Libby] : The Life and Times of Barbara Walters. Simon & Schuster, 2024. Kissinger. fidel castro. TV news. Robin Williams. women. sexism. chancellor. Barbara Walters. the view. RACHEL MADDOW. CBS. holiday gifts. feminist icons. ABC News. Diane Sawyer. Whoopi Goldberg. gifts for mom. gifts for women. gifts for her. Glass cieling. biographies of women. nancy pelosi. gifts for girlfriends. Kati Marton. the man who ran washington. anthony bourdain bio. down and out in paradise. karen tumulty. angela merkel bio. dave itzkoff. dinners with ruth. james a baker. ladies who punch. life of anthony bourdain. lisa rogak. madame speaker. nancy reagan bio. nina totenberg. peter baker and susan glasser. ramin setoodeh. the matriarch. triumph of nancy reagan. tv anchors. walters biography. woman's history month. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 131MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Entertainment. HTML:The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. She was not just a groundbreaker for women (Oprah announced when she was seventeen that she wanted to be Barbara Walters), but also expanded the big TV interview and then dominated the genre. By the end of her career, she had interviewed more of the famous and infamous, from presidents to movie stars to criminals to despots, than any other journalist in history. Then at sixty-seven, past the age many female broadcasters found themselves involuntarily retired, she pioneered a new form of talk TV called The View. She is on the short list of those who have left the biggest imprints on television news and on our culture, male or female. So, who was the woman behind the legacy? In The Rulebreaker, Susan Page conducts 150 interviews and extensive archival research to discover that Walters was driven to keep herself and her family afloat after her mercurial and famous impresario father attempted suicide. But she never lost the fear of an impending catastrophe, which is what led her to ask for things no woman had ever asked for before, to ignore the rules of misogynistic culture, to outcompete her most ferocious competitors, and to protect her complicated marriages and love life from scrutiny. Page breaks news on every front—from the daring things Walters did to become the woman who reinvented the TV interview to the secrets she kept until her death. 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. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-04-30 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4964e307-f4da-4476-bc00-f761f89eed99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4964e307-f4da-4476-bc00-f761f89eed99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXLVP