Couric talks candidly about adjusting to sudden fame after her astonishing rise to co-anchor of the TODAY show, and guides us through the most momentous events and news stories of the era, to which she had a front-row seat: Rodney King, Anita Hill, Columbine, the death of Princess Diana, 9/11, the Iraq War. challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career.
Balancing her vivacious, outgoing personality with her desire to be taken seriously, she overcame every obstacle in her way: insecurity, an eating disorder, being typecast, sexism. This book is.” Beginning in early childhood, Couric was inspired by her journalist father to pursue the career he loved but couldn’t afford to stay in. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, “Television can put you in a box the flat-screen can flatten.
In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she’s never shared, until now. For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. Heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest, Going There is the deeply personal life story of a girl next door turned household name. How can Lacy pursue him, without becoming the next name on his list? The Judge’s List is by any measure John Grisham’s most surprising, chilling novel yet. He has a list, with the names of his victims and targets, all unsuspecting people unlucky enough to have crossed his path and wronged him in some way. He is a judge, in Florida-under Lacy’s jurisdiction.
He knows forensics, police procedure, and most important: he knows the law.
He is the most cunning of all serial killers. The man is brilliant, patient, and always one step ahead of law enforcement. Suspicions are easy enough, but proof seems impossible. Along the way, she has discovered other victims. But Jeri has a suspect whom she has become obsessed with and has stalked for two decades. Jeri Crosby’s father was murdered twenty years earlier in a case that remains unsolved and that has grown stone cold. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change.
She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate.