druk onbekend, 2005. harde kaft met stofomslag. Lichte gebruikssporen. Lichte sporen van gebruik (zie omschrijving voor eventuele details).

Lichte schade aan de stofomslag. Het kan zijn dat een geschreven naam of aantekening in het boek over het hoofd gezien is.


“NBC’s Andrea Mitchell is tenacious. like a pit bull. with a bone,” said USA Today. She is so persistent that Bill Clinton once scrawled on her photograph: “One of you is great, but sufficient.” One of the most watched, most respected television reporters for more than a quarter century, Mitchell is known for her brilliant reporting, her unquestioned authority, and her keen insights into the American political scene.

Andrea Mitchell started her pathbreaking career as the quintessential girl reporter and quickly became one of the first women in broadcast news. Time and again, Mitchell has proven herself by talking on the tough assignments - starting with her first posting abroad in Guyana after the previous NBC correspondent had been murdered by Jim Jones’s henchmen. She has had unique access to the halls of power and here gives us her unvarnished insights into every president from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush - and the men and women who surrounded them.

Andrea Mitchell is always the one with the scoop. As she writes in Talking Back, she was the one whose questioning prompted Hillary Clinton to say she didn’t want to stay home “and backe cookies,” who revealed that Ronald Reagan’s napping caused a rescheduling of the space shuttle’s reentry into the atmosphere, who has been present at every major international event from the fall of the Berlin Wall to yasser Arafat’s funeral to Condoleezza Rice’s first whirlwind trip as secretary of state. She is known as the one to beat tot the story, whether it’s a series of exclusive interviews with Fidel Castro or breaking the news that John Kerry had picked John Edwards as his running mate.

But what sets this book apart is not only the unique front-row seat Mitchell has in the political world, but also the role she plays in Washington’s social scene. her marriage to Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, has created professinal challenges but has also given her special entrée to the “A” list of drawing rooms in Washington and other capitals. Here she gives us glimpes of what it’s like to go from a 7 P.M. newscast to an 8 P.M. black-tie party, to go from being the reporter staking out a state dinner to being one of the invited guests.

Smart, candidly written, and highly engaging, Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes memoir is a classic of contemporary journalism and a must-read for anyone intrested in politics and current afairs. It will also fascinate anyone looking for an insider’s perspective on the dramatic changes in television news, from one of the pioneering women in a traditionally all-male profession. Andrea Mitchell is a class act, and so is Talking Back.

Andrea Mitchell has been chief foreign correspondent for NBC since 1994, reporting fro broadcasts such as NBC Nightly News, Today and Meet the Press. Previously she was NBC’s White House correspondent and has reported on presidential politics since 1972. A native of New York, she lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband.


• boek past NIET door de brievenbus •