It seems that time has a way of bringing out all the hidden secrets and of course it normally includes selling a book/ memoir. This is just what has happened when ABC’s “The View” co-host, Barbara Walters, went on The Oprah Winfrey Show and admitted she had an infatuation with Republican Senator of Massachusetts, Edward W. Brooke. In Barbara Walters memoir she reveals that in the 1970s the infatuation led to an affair with married Brooke, the memoir has been named “Audition” and explains that this affair has never came to light before, and that it ended before he lost his bid for a third term in 1978.
Edward W. Brooke was the first “black person elected to the Senate by popular vote” and Walters explains that it was an exciting time in Washington; she described Brooke as brilliant and exciting. The memoir goes on to tell the story of her long career in television and also many aspects of her personal life.
Many celebrities love to tell the story of their life as the career is coming to an end, while some do this for money, others do it because they have a story they want to share with the world. The reason Barbara Walters is sharing her life story is down to opinion.
Would you read Barbara Walters memoir?
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Barbara Walter’s life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she’s written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly - I actually liked it even more. The memoir is “”My Stroke of Insight”" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having”", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!
Comment by Ivonne — May 30, 2008 @ 9:45 am