Going There

Going There

by Katie Couric
Going There

Going There

by Katie Couric

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316535861
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 10/26/2021
Pages: 528
Sales rank: 237,418
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Katie Couric has been a television host on all three major networks in the United States. She has been honored on numerous occasions for her work with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the National Parkinson's Foundation. In 2004, she was inducted into the American Television Hall of Fame. She is the author of two children's books The Brand New Kid and The Blue Ribbon Day, and an adult self-help book, The Best Advice I Ever Got.

Table of Contents

Prologue 3

Part I 7

1 Moxie 9

2 ABC News, May I Help You? 12

3 Let 'Em Know You're There 16

4 Chicken Noodle News 22

5 Binge, Purge, Repeat 25

6 Who Is That Girl? 30

7 The State of the Onion 33

8 Breast Size 37

9 Rainy Days and Mondays 41

10 Good Night, David! Good Night, Chet! 43

11 Hot, Hot, Hot 48

12 Nice Writing, Ms. Couric 52

13 Finding Ted 58

14 I Can Do This 64

15 The E-Ring 70

16 Velveeta 73

17 A Two-Bagger 78

18 Horny Toads 83

19 I Am Woman 87

20 Katherine or Katie 92

21 A Defiant Mop 94

22 It's a Girl! 98

23 Brains After Babies 101

24 Paging Mary Poppins 106

25 Perky 110

26 Florence and Normandie 119

27 The Coast of Casablanca 125

28 Movin' Out 130

29 Martha, Dear Martha 135

Part II 141

30 Jay 143

31 Mr. Katie Couric 148

32 "Shit." 151

33 The Worry Cup 154

34 "Katie's Private Pain" 157

35 Diana 161

36 A Pony for Ellie 164

37 Saturday Morning 168

38 Ashokan Farewell 171

39 From Hope to Hope 177

40 Safe, Sane, and Secure 182

41 The Aloneness 185

42 "There's Been a Shooting" 190

43 The Nicest Pal a Guy Could Have 196

Part III 199

44 The Way It Was 201

45 Affable Eva Braun 206

46 The Booking Wars 212

47 Tom-Tom 221

48 The Couric Effect 226

49 Emily 231

50 Churro'd 235

51 "TODAY, Tuesday, September 11th, 2001" 238

52 WWED? 244

53 Persona Non Grata 247

54 Dear Katie 251

55 Probing Colins 256

56 One Big-Ass Rabbit 261

57 Goodbye from Kansas! 270

Part IV 275

58 The Dairy Depot 277

59 Tick Tick Tick Tick 283

60 KC and the Sunshine Band 285

61 … And I'm Katie Couric 290

62 She's Toast 295

63 So Hawt 299

64 Lasagna Was Served 302

65 The Wisdom of Samantha 308

66 The Fall of Rome 312

67 Business Trip 317

68 The Twitter 323

69 Damned If You Do 329

70 If Jay Were Here 333

71 Hockey Mom 335

72 You Betcha 340

73 Over Un-Easy 347

74 Take This Job and Shove It 352

75 A Chap Named Parkinson 359

76 Family Feud 363

Part V 367

77 Nancy Knows 369

78 That Molner Guy 372

79 Are You Ready for This Day? 378

80 Flop Sweat 388

81 The Brady Bunch 395

82 Déjà Vu 399

83 "And YOU Get a Vacuum!" 404

84 I Will 407

85 Labor Day 411

86 #Ladydouchebag 417

87 Palooza on the Plaza 422

88 Fire! Fire! 425

Part VI 431

89 The Last Supper 433

90 No Bueno 438

91 Morning Has Broken 441

92 Hero to Zero 446

93 Addie 450

94 The Leon Trotsky of 30 Rock 453

95 I'm Gonna Miss This 456

96 The System 461

97 Bleeding Purple 465

98 Gone with the Wind 472

99 It's C-o-u-r-i-c 481

Epilogue 489

Acknowledgments 491

Index 497

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