

Off Camera
Private Thoughts Made Public
Author: Ted Koppel
Narrator: Ted Koppel
Abridged: 5 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 10/03/2000
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs, Language Arts
Synopsis
Koppel's book moves on yet another level as events trigger memories of his own past, providing a more personal resonance to his telling of the history we all share. He takes us back to the England in which he lived until he was thirteen. He revisits his powerful experiences as an interviewer investigating prison abuses and probing the violence in our schools. He discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the media; he talks about racial intolerance, about brutality toward gay people, about the absence of political leadership. He also examines such cultural phenomena as our obsession with celebrity and the impact of great theater and overhyped movies.
Here is the voice we knew so well from Nightline--intelligent, curious, opinionated, witty, concerned--reminding us in entertaining and thought-provoking ways that even the most public events reverberate in our private lives.