Going There (read by Katie Couric) Going There (read by Katie Couric)

Going There (read by Katie Couric‪)‬

    • 4.2 • 356 Ratings
    • $22.99

    • $22.99

Publisher Description

This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name.

For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. 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. 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. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. 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. 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 . . . challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career. 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 . . . In every instance, she relentlessly pursued the facts, ruffling more than a few feathers along the way.  She also recalls in vivid and sometimes lurid detail the intense pressure on female anchors to snag the latest “get”—often sensational tabloid stories like Jon Benet Ramsey, Tonya Harding, and OJ Simpson.

Couric’s position as one of the leading lights of her profession was  shadowed by the shock and trauma of losing her husband to stage 4 colon cancer when he was just 42, leaving her a widow and single mom to two daughters, 6 and 2. The death of her sister Emily, just three years later, brought yet more trauma—and an unwavering commitment to cancer awareness and research, one of her proudest accomplishments.

 Couric is unsparing in the details of her historic move to the anchor chair at the CBS Evening News—a world rife with sexism and misogyny.  Her “welcome” was even more hostile at 60 Minutes, an unrepentant boys club that engaged in outright hazing of even the most established women.  In the wake of the MeToo movement, Couric shares her clear-eyed reckoning with gender inequality and predatory behavior in the workplace, and downfall of Matt Lauer—a colleague she had trusted and respected for more than a decade.

Couric also talks about the challenge of finding love again, with all the hilarity, false-starts, and drama that search entailed, before finding her midlife Mr. Right.  Something she has never discussed publicly—why her second marriage almost didn’t happen. 

If you thought you knew Katie Couric, think again. Going There is the fast-paced, emotional, riveting story of a thoroughly modern woman, whose journey took her from humble origins to superstardom. In these pages, you will find a friend, a confidante, a role model, a survivor whose lessons about life will enrich your own.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
KC
Katie Couric
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
15:27
hr min
RELEASED
2021
October 26
PUBLISHER
Hachette Audio
SIZE
769.6
MB

Customer Reviews

YSSAR ,

Entertaining

Overall, a very enjoyable autobiography that covered current events, both political and societal, of the last forty years. I’m not sure I agreed with her assessment that women were not taught to support other women or to encourage their successes.

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Beautiful writing

Loved this book! She has an amazing life and story. Her writing is beautiful. Laughing out loud and tears expected. She was open and honest.

Charlie Stanley ,

A Reflection of Excellence with Katie Couric

In listening to Katie Couric’s “Going There,” I was struck by the profound intimacy with which Couric shares her journey. Over the course of 14 hours, her voice—so long a part of my morning routine—unfolded her life’s narrative with a candor and warmth that far surpassed the familiarity of her public persona.

From the poignant recounting of her husband Jay’s battle with colon cancer to the exuberant behind-the-scenes tales of the “Today Show,” Couric’s memoir felt like a series of personal anecdotes shared with an old friend. Her reflections on the exhilarating and, at times, daunting career leaps—from NBC to the “CBS Evening News” and beyond—resonated with me as a listener. It wasn’t just a chronicle of events but a testament to her resilience and trailblazing spirit as the first woman solo anchor of an evening news show for a major network.

As I journeyed through the chapters of Couric’s life, her candid discussion of the challenges at “60 Minutes” and her insights into the digital transition with Yahoo under Marissa Mayer’s tenure were particularly enlightening. Hearing Couric’s voice convey these experiences brought a personal dimension that deepened my understanding of the complexities and nuances of such high-stake environments.

I grew up watching Katie Couric on the “Today Show,” and her book felt like coming full circle—from hearing her voice as a child getting ready for school to now, in my 40s, listening to her recount the very career that was part of my daily life. “Going There” provided me with a richer, more personal perspective on the journalistic landscape that Couric navigated, including her interactions with iconic figures such as Bryant Gumbel.

Awarding this book five stars seems only a mere acknowledgment of its impact. Couric’s blend of professional memoir and personal revelation makes “Going There” a journey well worth taking for anyone who values the intertwining of the personal with the historical, the individual with the collective, narrated by a journalist who has not only reported the news but has, in many ways, been part of its very making.

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