By Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters was raised in the roller coaster world of nightclubs and Broadway shows, so it is no surprise she wound up interviewing the rich and famous. Text from DJCline.com.

What is surprising is that for a long time she was the sole support of her parents and disabled sister. Her adopted daughter turned out to be a hellraising teenager. She was married four times. She spent a lot of time looking into other people’s private lives while her own life was a mess.Text from DJCline.com.

It is interesting to watch someone who started out as a swimsuit model feeding Alpo to dogs on NBC’s Today Show complain about how silly television has become. Walters struggled for years to be taken seriously and paved the way for all sorts of women like Oprah Winfrey.Text from DJCline.com.

It is hard not to become part of the stories you cover. She has all the compromising relationships that people complain about in old media. She is friends with Roy Cohn, spends vacations with weapons dealer Adnan Kashoggi, and interviews dictators like Fidel Castro. On light days she interviewed convicted murderers like the Menendez brothers. On really light days she hosts ABC’s The View and battles with Star Jones or Rosie O’Donnell. No wonder people turn to the Internet for news.Text from DJCline.com.

The book starts well but ends in namedropping of major proportions. If you are stuck in an airport it is light reading in a heavy tome. Text from DJCline.com.

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