![]() I have contemplated it, however I just don't know. I think the world of you to be able to sit down and write this book about your family and your history. Katy, You have done it one more time, this book was excellent. This one might not have happened in other circumstances. Why? There could be some redemption, but we don't know. But do we know if there is a better outcome or if the doctor is properly punished for her bad judgment. Poor Mama Tur experiences the predictable misery of an unnecessary surgical birth, described in harrowing detail. My babies were born fifty and sixty years ago and we mamas already knew inducing was nuts in most instances. For me, the prime example is an account of the birth of her first child, in which some deluded obstetrician recommends inducing a six pound baby. Everything included calls out for everything not included. Memoir is selective, and, oh, boy, this one is selective. So, are we glad for pandemic? In this one instance, yes. I doubt this book would have happened except fo pandemic. Do buy it and figure it out for yourself. I don't know quite what to make of this one. I am eighty-one years old and have read a LOT of books, and written some. so heroic.” – Nicole Wallace, MSNBC host of Deadline: White House “Heart-wrenching.Deeply layered.” – Daily Mail -Ce texte fait référence à l'édition hardcover. ” – Gayle King, host of CBS Mornings “ is so good. The story Katy Tur tells in Rough Draft is so unusual but also resonant to anyone with a family." -Kara Swisher “She goes all the way there. I really think people are going to love reading this book: for journalism, for life, for families.” -Trevor Noah, The Daily Show "Super raw and fascinating. "If journalism is the 'first rough draft of history' then Tur's memoir is a stunning reminder that journalists are not only providing us with the draft, they are living its revision alongside us." - Brooklyn Daily Eagle “It's a hell of a story.” - New York Times Book Review “A stunning and revelatory memoir.” - Oprah Daily “If you love the kind of true stories that make you say ‘omg, how is this real,’ look no further.” - The Skimm "More provocative than Tur's first book. a vivid account of how one woman’s inheritance propelled her from a tumultuous childhood to a high-profile perch in television journalism." - The Washington Post “I don’t think I’ve ever read an account as personal. Intimate and captivating, Rough Draft explores the gift and curse of family legacy, examines the roles and responsibilities of the news, and asks the question: To what extent do we each get to write our own story? Tur also opens up for the first time about her struggles with burnout and impostor syndrome, her stumbles in the anchor chair, and her relationship with CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil (who quite possibly had a crazier childhood than she did). And she charts her own survival from local reporter to globe-trotting foreign correspondent, running from her past. She recounts her complicated relationship with a father who was magnetic, ambitious, and, at times, frightening. In Rough Draft, Tur writes about her eccentric and volatile California childhood, punctuated by forest fires, earthquakes, and police chases-all seen from a thousand feet in the air. To Tur, these family videos were an inheritance of sorts, and a reminder of who she was before her own breakout success as a reporter. Simpson’s notorious run in the white Bronco. They grew rich and famous for their aerial coverage of Madonna and Sean Penn’s secret wedding, the Reginald Denny beating in the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and O.J. The box contained thousands of hours of video-the work of her pioneering helicopter journalist parents. Their reputations.” When a box from her mother showed up on Katy Tur’s doorstep, months into the pandemic and just as she learned she was pregnant with her second child, she didn’t know what to expect. By the time I was in high school, though, my parents had lost it all. By four, I could hold a microphone and babble my way through a kiddie news report. ![]() “By the time I was two years old, I knew to yell ‘Story! Story!’ at the squawks of my parents’ police scanner. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s a hell of a story.” - The New York Times “A stunning and revelatory memoir.” - Oprah Daily From MSNBC anchor and New York Times bestselling author Katy Tur, a shocking and deeply personal memoir about a life spent chasing the news.
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