For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at
revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most
influ?ential show in television history, she has gotten her
guests—often the biggest celebrities in the world—to bare their
love lives, explore their painful pasts, admit their
transgressions, reveal their pleasures, and explore their demons.
In turn, Oprah has repeatedly allowed her audience to share in her
own life story, opening up about the sexual abuse in her past and
discussing her romantic relationships, her weight problems, her
spiritual beliefs, her charitable donations, and her strongly held
views on the state of the world.
After a quarter of a century of the Oprah-ization of America, can
there be any more secrets left to reveal?
Yes. Because Oprah has met her match.
Kitty Kelley has, over the same period of time, fear?lessly and
relentlessly investigated and written about the world’s most
revered icons: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Frank Sinatra, Nancy
Reagan, England’s Royal Family, and the Bush dynasty. In her #1
bestselling biographies, she has exposed truths and exploded myths
to uncover the real human beings that exist behind their
manufac?tured facades.
Turning her reportorial sights on Oprah, Kelley has now given us
an unvarnished look at the stories Oprah’s told and the life she’s
led. Kelley has talked to Oprah’s closest family members and
business associates. She has obtained court records, birth
certificates, financial and tax records, and even copies of Oprah’s
legendary and punishing confidentiality agreements. She has
probed every aspect of Oprah Winfrey’s life, and it is as if she’s
written the most extraordinary segment of The Oprah Winfrey Show
ever filmed—one in which Oprah herself is finally and fully
revealed.
There is a case to be made, and it is certainly made in this
book, that Oprah Winfrey is an important, and even great, figure of
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But there is also a case
to be made that even greatness needs to be examined and put under a
microscope. Fact must be separated from myth, truth from hype.
Kitty Kelley has made that separation, showing both sides of Oprah
as they have never been shown before. In doing so she has written a
psychologically perceptive and meticulously researched book that
will surprise and thrill everyone who reads it.
關於作者：
Kitty Kelley is the internationally acclaimed bestselling
author of Jackie Oh!; Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star; His Way: The
Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra; Nancy Reagan: The
Unauthorized Biography; The Royals; and The Family: The Real Story
of the Bush Dynasty. The last four titles were all #1 on the New
York Times bestseller list. Kelley has been honored by her peers
with such awards as the Outstanding Author Award from the American
Society of Journalists and Authors for her “courageous writing on
popular cul?ture,” the Philip M. Stern Award for her “outstanding
service to writers and the writing profession,” the Medal of Merit
from the Lotos Club of New York City, and the 2005 PEN Oakland
Literary Censorship Award. Her articles have appeared in The New
York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek,
People, Ladies’ Home Journal, McCall’s, the Los Angeles Times, and
the Chicago Tribune. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her
physician husband, Jonathan Zucker.
From the Hardcover edition.
目錄：
Foreword
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Afterword
SomeOprahCredits,1984-2009
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
PhotographCredits
Index
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