Golden Girl, The Story of Jessica Savitch by Alanna Nash (1988)

Golden Girl:  The Story of Jessica Savitch
by Alanna Nash
Publisher:  E. P. Dutton
Copyright:  1988
Book Club Edition

A riveting biography of one of America's best-loved and most tormented news personalities -- a masterpiece of research by a first-rate journalist.

Jessica Savitch was a commercial for the American dream.  Beautiful, blonde, a network news anchorwoman by the age of thirty, she was the stuff of fantasy, a cool but vulnerable vision who wafted into millions of households every night.  For young women, her real legion of fans, she was something of a double role model -- a brilliant journalistic pioneer and a Grace Kelly of the 1980s.

In this revealing biography of the late newswoman, Alanna Nash probes both the psychological enigma of Savitch's troubled personality and the glamorous world of television news -- and of a network that hired the pretty blonde for all the wrong reasons.  It is also the extraordinary saga of a ferociously driven woman who battled drug dependency and neuroses to become one of the most respected and trusted news anchors in America.

In recounting Savitch's harrowing tale, Nash investigates the series of tragedies that haunted Savitch's personal life, including the death of her father when she was twelve and the suicide of her second husband shortly after their marriage.  But the biographer finds that Savitch contributed to her own misfortune, too, embarking on a horrifying journey of self-sabotage, damaging personal relationships, and heedless careening into self-deception and denial.  It is a trail that inevitably led to Savitch's tragic, early death at the age of thirty-six, when the car in which she was riding tumbled into the muddy Delaware Canal.

Based on more than 300 interviews with Savitch's friends, lovers, psychiatrists, and colleagues, this biography solves the essential Savitch mystery, corrects the untruths of her public and private lives, and pays tribute to a woman who beat remarkable odds to triumph in her profession.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover is lightly discolored and has rubbed edges, edge creases and scuffing.  Pages may be tanning from age.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.

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