Talking Back: ..Presidents, Dictators, & Assorted Scoundrels Andrea Mitchell
Smart and candidly written, Mitchell?s memoir will be a must read for anyone interested in politics and current affairs and will also fascinate anyone who wonders what it?s like to be a powerful woman in a man?s world.
Viking
September 2005
432 pages ISBN: 0670034037 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Andrea Mitchell started her pathbreaking career as the
quintessential girl reporter and quickly became one of the
first women in broadcast news. She’s been labeled a "pushy
broad," yet her intelligence, tenacity, and ability to
always be "where the action is" have catapulted her to the
top of her profession. As one of America’s most watched
correspondents, Mitchell has regularly shared her
observations with millions of television viewers for more
than three decades.
Time and again, Mitchell has proven herself by taking on
the tough assignments— starting with her first posting
abroad in Guyana after the previous NBC correspondent had
been murdered by Jim Jones’s henchmen. She has had unique
access to all the presidents and their staffs from Jimmy
Carter to George W. Bush, and here gives us her unvarnished
insights into these men and those who surround them.
Whether it was revealing that Ronald Reagan’s napping
caused the delay of a space shuttle landing, conducting
exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro, or accompanying
Condoleezza Rice on her first trip abroad as secretary of
state, she is known as the one to beat to the story.
But what sets this book apart is not only the unique front-
row seat Mitchell has in the political world, but also the
role she plays in the glamorous social scene in Washington.
Her marriage to Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, has created
professional challenges, but also given her special entrée
to the "A" list drawing rooms of Washington and other
capitals. Here she gives us glimpses of what it’s like to
go from a 7 p.m. newscast to an 8 p.m. black-tie party, to
go from being the reporter staking out a state dinner to
being one of the invited guests.
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