How Struggles MADE HER STRONGER

A NEW BOOK ABOUT THE TELEVISION JOURNALIST'S LIFE REVEALS THE CHALLENGES THAT FUELED HER AMBITION

- Louise A. Barile, Lindsay Hoffman

For more than 40 years, broadcast journalist and TV host Barbara Walters led America’s watercooler conversations by interviewing movie stars, presidents and other newsmakers. A groundbreaker in TV news, she paved the way for a new generation of female journalists.

The relentless competitive spirit that drove Barbara is explored in a new book, The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters, by Susan Page, Washington bureau chief of USA Today. “In the beginning, she was the first and she was the only woman,” says Page, “but she liked that by the end of her life, there were a lot of women doing big jobs in TV journalism.”