Kate Andersen Brower — Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon - with Carol Lee

In the first ever authorized biography of the Hollywood icon, Elizabeth Taylor, Kate Andersen Brower reveals the world through Elizabeth's eyes. Brower uses Elizabeth's unpublished letters, diary entries, and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family to tell the full, unvarnished story of her remarkable career and her explosive private life that made headlines worldwide. Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile, and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at age twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist.

Here is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legendary star and her legacy.

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Kate Andersen Brower is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence and First Women, also a New York Times bestseller, as well as Team Of Five, First In Line, and the children’s book Exploring the White House. The Residence is being made into a television series produced by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. Her forthcoming book Elizabeth Taylor is the first authorized biography of the icon. She is a CNN contributor and she covered the Obama administration for Bloomberg News. She is also a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. Kate has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post. She lives outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband, their three young children, and their wheaten terrier.

Andersen Broweri s in conversation with Carol Lee. Lee is an NBC News White House correspondent, reporting regularly across the network’s flagship news programs, MSNBC and NBC News Digital. She is one of the network’s lead reporters covering government agencies, national security, foreign policy and diplomacy under the Biden administration. During the Trump administration, Lee broke a number of exclusive investigative reports for the network including President Trump requiring personnel at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center sign a non-disclosure agreement and Kim Jong Un’s efforts to hide North Korea’s nuclear weapons production. After President Trump announced that he would pardon Gen. Michael Flynn, Lee conducted an in-depth look into his 25-day tenure as National Security Advisor and how he became the first target in the Russia investigation. Over a three-year timeline, Lee spoke with more than 20 current and former officials from within the Trump administration that were directly involved in covering and uncovering Flynn’s actions. Prior to joining NBC News, Lee covered the White House for The Wall Street Journal and POLITICO. She previously served as president of the White House Correspondents' Association and was a member of the association’s board from 2010 to 2016. Lee is a graduate of New York University's school of journalism and lives in Washington, D.C. Follow Lee on Twitter at @carolelee.

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