How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything

by Barbara Walters

Offers advice in conversing with individuals ranging from celebrities, clergymen, politicians and employers to handicapped people

Genres: Self Help

195 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1974

About the author

Barbara Walters of American television reported news from 1961 for the national broadcasting company, and afterward in 1976 joined as the first woman to anchor the nightly network to 1979.

Barbara Jill Walters wrote as an journalist and media personality as a regular fixture on morning shows like The View. People knew Walters for more than a decade in morning on Today, where she with Hugh Downs later hosted Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent a quarter-century as co-host of 20/20, an evening magazine. She, the female, stood with Harry Reasoner on The American Broadcasting Company Evening News.

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Reviews

[Tim · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a book by a well-respected television journalist, about the art of conversation and interviewing. It’s from 1970 and sports a picture of the author, much younger, certainly. Although the material is quite dated (she is referred to on the book jacket as “Miss Walters,” for example, and there are a number of other contemporary-culture references which by now seem stale, irrelevant and at times downright sexist, racist and generally politically incorrect, and which one reads with a combination of hilarity and cringing horror), the message seems consistent. Ms. (see?) Walters gives advice on talking to and bringing out people from a variety of groups, such as young/old, politicians/celebrities/CEOs, spouses of politicians/ celebrities/CEOs, royalty, difficult people, authors/lecturers, party guests and the like. I found the going quite slow, but for one who is shy and at a loss for such conversation at times, it would be helpful. Truly, I would be interested in an updated version of this book; indeed, I would surmise that Ms. Walters may herself cringe upon rereading these pages.


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