{"product_id":"tell-me-something-good-9780593798782","title":"Tell Me Something Good","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rollicking, star-studded memoir from the trailblazing \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author and \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e journalist Maureen Orth, who tackled the power and privilege of celebrity for five decades\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Maureen Orth’s teens, a fortune teller told her that before she died she would have met everyone and gone everywhere, a prophesy that she has close to fulfilled. To Orth, being boring is a mortal sin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs soon as she graduated from Berkeley, she went east for Peace Corps training and posed with President Lyndon Johnson in the Rose Garden, then argued with Bobby Kennedy aboard the presidential yacht about whether he should run for the Senate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs one of the first female writers for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e and then as a longtime correspondent for \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, she watched Stevie Wonder as he recorded an album that would later be called part of his “perfect run” of records and spent eleven wild days on the set of \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Now\u003c\/i\u003e before Francis Ford Coppola threw her off the PT boat. She had dinner in Paris with Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. She got hit on by Bob Dylan and danced with the shy and scruffy twenty-six-year-old Bruce Springsteen. At forty, she married the love of her life, Tim Russert.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, she persevered through blatant sexism and helped redefine women’s roles in the newsroom. She broke news with investigative reporting about Gianni Versace’s killer and sexual abuse allegations against Michael Jackson and Woody Allen. A career in journalism allowed her to live at the white-hot center of power, sex, and culture. But it is her Catholic faith that has sustained her, inspiring a decades-long commitment to creating a cutting-edge educational foundation in Colombia, where her life’s adventure began as a Peace Corps volunteer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTell Me Something Good\u003c\/i\u003e, Orth vividly chronicles a bygone age when the world felt both bigger and smaller, and a determined and adventurous young woman chartered a course that brought her face-to-face with the most recognizable heroes, villains, and icons of the past fifty years.","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62310111838595,"sku":"9780593798782","price":34.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780593798782.jpg?v=1786047634","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/tell-me-something-good-9780593798782","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}