ISBN: 0451161211
Godina izdanja: 1989
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Alanna Nash - Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch
Signet, 1989
361 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro
Ilustrovano

In 1984, five of the ten Miss America finalists said they planned to become television news anchors. For some of those young women, an early role model was probably a mesmerizing blonde named Jessica Savitch who illuminated the network airwaves for a time in the late seventies and early eighties like no one before or since. She made the word `anchorwoman` something different: She made it magic.
As someone who never wanted to be a Miss America contestant, but who was fascinated by the anchorwoman role model, I wondered what it would be like to live Jessica`s life, an existence that seemed so desirable and perfect, the ideal wedding of beauty and brains.
I discovered, in research that would be in many ways like a two-year television apprenticeship, that the story of Jessica Savitch is a fairy tale. More so, it is a cautionary tale. It is, in the words of her most intimate friend, Ron Kershaw, the story of `someone who drove herself beyond the limits of anyone, and then didn`t know how to stop it, to turn it off, and just be at peace for a while. It is the story of the little girl who flew too close to the sun, and
her wings melted.` It is that, and it is more. But most of all, it is a nightmare, hung in the fragile balance of truth and illusion that is television.

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. The Family
2. An Engine Inside of Her`: The School Years
3. A Great Magnetism: CBS, Houston, and Ron Kershaw
4. The Fourth Largest Market: Philadelphia
5. Famous
6. To the Network: NBC and Washington
7. Jessica Savitch-Payne
8. Nightmare
9. The Spiral: New York
Epilogue



Her mysterious death in an auto accident ended Jessica Savitch`s life at age 36. Her star had slipped since her glory days as NBC`s first anchorwoman, but she still had the love of millions of Americans. Only later did they hear the rumors that their Golden Girl was a ferociously driven woman, battling drug addiction and self-sabotage. Who was the complex, unhappy person behind the glamorous TV image? What secret demons drove her to her tragic early death?

Based on more than 300 interviews with Jessica Savitch`s lovers, colleagues, friends and psychiatrists, this sensational biography gives an accurate, fascinating portrait of her public and private lives, and for the first time pays tribute to a woman who beat the odds to triumph in her profession... but paid the ultimate, terrifying price.

Biography, Non-Fiction