01831cam a2200325u 4500 176951785 OCoLC 20250716110605.0 ta 121108s2008 nyua 001 0aeng d 2008005843 9780307266460 29.95 030726646X (OCoLC)176951785 DLC DLC BTCTA BAKER CWJ AJM n-us--- CWJA PN4874.W285 A3 2008 070.92 B 22 Walters, Barbara, 1931- 21797 Audition : a memoir / Barbara Walters. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. viii, 612 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes index. After more than forty years of interviewing celebrities of all kinds, the most important woman in the history of television journalism has turned her gift for examination onto herself to reveal the forces that shaped her extraordinary life. Her father's risk-taking lifestyle gave Barbara her first taste of glamour, but Lou Walters didn't just make fortunes--he also lost them. Barbara's roller-coaster childhood played a large part in the choices she made as she grew up: the friendships, the marriages she tried to make work. Ultimately, her drive, with a decent amount of luck, got her a career in television. Barbara has spent a lifetime auditioning: for the networks, for the viewers, for the most famous people in the world, and even for her own daughter, with whom she has had a difficult relationship. This book is her final audition, as she opens up both her private and public lives.--From publisher description Walters, Barbara, 1931- 21798 Journalists United States Biography. 6298 ddc BOOK 2998 2998 0 0 ABELJ abelj B 2016-10-26 0 B WALT 33341 2016-10-26 29.95 2016-10-26 BOOK