Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public - Hardcover

One of America's most acclaimed television journalists reflects on the final year of the twentieth century in terms of world history and the future, discussing the implications of such events as the Clinton impeachment, the war in Kosovo, and the approval of Viagra and profiling some of the key figures who made the news, from Michael Jordan to Slobodan Milosevic to John F. Kennedy, Jr. 250,000 first printing.

ca's most admired television newsmen now gives us an intimate chronicle of the final year of the twentieth century. In his engrossing narrative, the year's personalities and events not only are themselves made vivid but also lead to wide-ranging discussions of the past and of expectations of things to come.

Here, closely observed from an insider's viewpoint, are the significant matters of 1999--from the Clinton impeachment and the war in Kosovo to the mass-marketing of Viagra. Here are the people (both on and off camera) who made the news--from Slobodan Milosevi´c to Hillary Rodham Clinton to Michael Jordan to John F. Kennedy Jr. to King Hussein.

And 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