Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public by Ted Koppel

Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public by Ted Koppel

One of America's most admired TV anchors gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the twentieth century. In this engrossing narrative, a national bestseller, are all the most significant matters of that year--from Bill Clinton's impeachment to Columbine, from the war in Kosovo to Y2K and the mass-marketing of Viagra. Here are the people who made the news--from Slobodan Milosevic to Hillary Rodham Clinton to Michael Jordan to John F. Kennedy Jr. The events of 1999 anticipate so many of the on-going challenges America faces today that Koppel's account feels entirely prescient.

Koppel's book moves on yet another level as events trigger memories of his own past, providing a more personal resonance to his telling of the history we all share. He takes us back to the England in which he lived until he was thirteen. He revisits his powerful experiences as an interviewer investigating prison abuses and probing the violence in our schools. He discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the media; he talks about racial intolerance, about brutality toward gay people, about the absence of political leadership. He also examines such cultural phenomena as our obsession with celebrity and the impact of great theater and overhyped movies.

Here is the voice we knew so well from Nightline--intelligent, curious, opinionated, witty, concerned--reminding us in entertaining and thought-provoking ways that even the most public events reverberate in our private lives.

From 1980 through 2005, TED KOPPEL, an ABC News veteran of 42 years, was the anchor and managing editor of Nightline. Koppel was been designated one of the best 100 American journalists of the last century by New York University. He has won every major television award, including eight George Foster Peabody Awards, eleven Overseas Press Club Awards (one more than the previous record holder, Edward R. Murrow), and eight Emmy Awards. 12 duPont-Columbia Awards and 42 Emmys, according to Murrow. He has worked as the Discovery Channel's managing editor since 2005, as a news analyst for BBC America, as a special correspondent for Rock Center, and as a commentator and non-fiction book critic for NPR. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Off Camera and has contributed columns to the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal.

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ISBN 13	9780375410772
ISBN 10	0375410775
Title	Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public
Author	Ted Koppel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2000-10-03
Number of pages	336
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