Getting real
"A candid, funny memoir from the charismatic FOX News channel anchor and Miss America Pageant winner Celebrity news anchorwoman Gretchen Carlson shares her inspiring story and offers important takeaways for women (and men) about what it means to strive for and find success in the real world. Wi...
| Main Author: | Carlson, Gretchen, 1966- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Viking,
2015.
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| Summary: |
"A candid, funny memoir from the charismatic FOX News channel anchor and Miss America Pageant winner Celebrity news anchorwoman Gretchen Carlson shares her inspiring story and offers important takeaways for women (and men) about what it means to strive for and find success in the real world. With warmth and wit, she takes readers from her Minnesota childhood, where she became a violin prodigy, through college at Stanford and her in-the-trenches years as a cub reporter on local television stations before becoming a national news reporter. She describes her rise to anchor of The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson on FOX News channel as a testament to personal strength and perseverance. Carlson addresses the intense competitive effort of winning the Miss America Pageant, the challenges she's faced as a woman in broadcast television, and how she manages to balance work and family as the wife of high-profile sports agent Casey Close and devoted mother to their two children. An unceasing advocate for respect and equality for women, Carlson writes openly about her own struggles with body image, pageant stereotypes, building her career, and having the courage to speak her mind. She encourages women to strive for their goals, never give up, and always believe in themselves. In Getting Real, Carlson emerges as a living example of a woman not afraid to chase her dreams and embrace life fully"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: |
260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780525427452 (hardback) 0525427457 (hardback) |
| Author Notes: |
Her television career includes political reporter in Richmond, Virginia, anchor and reporter in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Dallas. Nationally, she has been a CBS News correspondent, covering national and international stories. She reported and produced, an award-winning, 30-part series on domestic violence. From 2005-2016, she worked for Fox News Channel. She worked as news anchor for Fox News, co-host of the morning show, Fox and Friends, and host of The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson. In 2016 she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes. She was recently honored as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World and is a tireless advocate for female empowerment. She is the author of Getting Real, published in 2015. Her second book, Be Fierce, was published in 2017. (Bowker Author Biography) |