"Gangster Whitey Bulger wanted him dead. Sen. Ted Kennedy tried to put his newspaper out of business. Gov. Mike Dukakis called him a 'sociopath.' The Boston Globe devoted a series to him--'Poisoned Politics.' Howie Carr--for more than 40 years, he has embodied 'the tabloid talk-show stuff in Boston,' as Whitey's brother Billy told a Congressional committee. Now for the first time Howie is telling his own story, in his own words--from the early days...

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time--Barbara Walters--a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media...