challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career. 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.

This book is.”īeginning in early childhood, Couric was inspired by her journalist father to pursue the career he loved but couldn’t afford to stay in. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. 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. 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. Rather, she pulls back the curtain on her life and times in the business, with much to celebrate and apologize for.Heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest, Going There is the deeply personal life story of a girl next door turned household name.įor more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. Couric has not written a capital-J journalism tome, self-righteously outlining the highest ideals of her profession. But with Lauer protected all around by professional sycophants and facilitators, Couric was hardly the only one who didn’t pick up on his transgressions. These pages are a navigational challenge for Couric, as she threads her way through reputational land mines that she barely escapes. Toward the end of the book, when Lauer was ousted from NBC and the 'Today' show amid allegations of sexual harassment and assault, Couric professes confusion about the beloved co-host she knew and the sexual predator she was reading about.

She cringes when she examines some of her choices. Looking back at her old interviews, she finds that she has a lot of explaining to do. If Couric’s memoir settles scores, it also forces her to reckon with her past self. If she is attempting to prove that she is not as nice as her on-air persona, she succeeds. What readers learn is that behind that chipper veneer there was a sharper-edged, savvier figure quietly taking notes - and judging everyone. Couric attempts to fill in those messy parts, to demystify herself and the world she inhabits.

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