No TV reporter today
is more respected than NBC’s Andrea Mitchell. She’s covered
stories
from Jonestown to the fall of the Berlin Wall, gotten unexpected
answers from such interviewees as Fidel Castro and Hillary
Clinton, and
balanced her high-wire career with a very public marriage to
former
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Dr. Alan Greenspan.
Mitchell’s candid,
funny, and riveting memoir is filled with unprecedented
behind-the-scenes views of the television news industry and
official
Washington. A classic of contemporary journalism by a woman
who has
taken on her profession’s entire old-boy network, Talking
Back deserves a place on the shelf alongside the memoirs
of Hillary Clinton and Katherine Graham.