Introduction: Million-dollar baby

A glass eye and a British accent

Roots

Lou and Dena

Never young

"The strongest influence in my life"

The fifth-grader and the bootlegger

Another opening, another show

The ostrich

The speedwriting secretarial school

The most forgettable husband; the most notorious friend

Catastrophe

"A halo of fear"

Sunrise

A godfather of the mafia sort

Becoming Barbara Walters

The runaway bride

The "pushy cookie"

"It's a girl!"

A melody played in a penny arcade

McGee's law

When love is not enough

Careful what you wish for

Failure

Fidel

Comeback

The man she married (but only once)

The runaway daughter

The honeymoon and the arms dealer

Loss

Diane

You can't have it all

The yin and the yang

The Barbara Walters interview

Bette Davis and the Dalai Lama

The View

Monica

Trump

One more time

The fall

The end

Epilogue: The rulebreaker

Acknowledgments

Source notes

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