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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…

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1 author picked Going There as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I could identify with a lot of what Katie went through in her long career as a television icon. Of course, my experiences were on a much smaller scale, but Katie’s memoir showed me that the same b.s. in corporate media happens at every level. She names names and tells everything we’ve ever wondered about Matt Lauer and her (now defunct) friendship with her longtime costar.

This book is simply another highlight in a career full of them. 

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