My Remarkable Journey

by Larry King, Mariya Kul'neva (Translator)

Overview

Do not look for a story in this book in the style of "I was born, raised ...". Larry King wouldn't be Larry King if he wrote so boringly. The autobiography of an interview genius is something like this: "I was a hooligan, I was a bad guy, but I was damn lucky all my life." Larry King was always in the right place at the right time. He crashed into the car of future President Kennedy and escaped with a promise to vote only for Kennedy. Working at a small radio station in Miami, he managed to interview the great Sinatra, who did not give interviews at all. I put my last money on a horse, which was accepted for 70 to 1, and ... won $ 8,000. This is the whole Larry King, whose biography is more like an exciting adventure novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785961436792
Publisher:	Alpina Publisher
Publication date:	05/03/2023
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	290
File size:	3 MB
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Larry King is the Emmy Award–winning host of Larry King Live on CNN and the author of several bestselling books. He has received numerous broadcast and journalism awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Editorial Reviews

Late-night comics prattle about his age, his suspenders, and his numerous marriages, but after 50 years in show business, Larry King remains one of the most popular, resilient figures in mass media. The host of CNN's Larry King Live now hobnobs with presidents and interviews A-list celebrities, but things have not always been so easy for this Brooklyn-born son of immigrants. His family struggled with severe poverty after his father died when Larry was only nine. Later, he lost several jobs, suffered from legal and financial problems, and struggled for decades with a three-pack-a-day smoking addiction. And this list doesn't even include his marital disasters or his quintuple heart bypass! Fortunately, King's memoir covers and redeems this whole, long, remarkable journey.

The legendary broadcaster on his eventful life and times, assisted by Esquire writer at large Fussman (After Jackie: Pride, Prejudice, and Baseball's Forgotten Heroes, 2007, etc.). King (How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere, 2004, etc.) discourses entertainingly on his antic life and storied career, vividly evoking his Brooklyn boyhood and adventures in broadcasting in that familiar, avuncular voice, which is practically audible on the page. He admits to restlessness and a short attention span, evincing a passionate, devil-may-care attitude toward life that precludes deep introspection. In lieu of revealing insights into his character or his talent, King breezily states that he is who he is, and maintains that being true to that immutable "Larryness" is the secret of his immense success. As such, he releases a torrent of well-rehearsed anecdotes, corny jokes, dropped names and baseball trivia. It's an enjoyable ride through an archetypal American life-the Jewish boy made good, a regular neighborhood guy who rises to the top through sheer gumption and force of personality. The most enjoyable sections concern King's boisterous, Depression-era Brooklyn exploits with a cast of well-drawn characters, some of whom add their own perspectives to King's version of events in funny sidebars. The author is unfussily candid about the less savory aspects of his life: the many marriages, his tendency to womanize, his serious health problems, the children he fathered but didn't raise and the financial indiscretions that led to his high-profile arrest for grand larceny in 1971. King's thoughts on the many celebrities and world leaders he has interviewed tend toward the trite and familiar, and hisdefense of his famous lack of preparation for these sit-downs is unconvincing. But it clearly works for him, and his autobiography is vintage King-lightweight but compulsively engaging. The man's a pro. A genial little tome, short on substance but with personality to spare.

Kirkus Reviews