Golden Girl : The Story of Jessica Savitch

Her mysterious death in an auto accident ended Jessica Savitch’s life at age 36. Her star had slipped since her glory days as NBC’s first anchorwoman, but she still had the love of millions of Americans. Only later did they hear the rumors that their Golden Girl was a ferociously driven woman, battling drug addiction and self-sabotage. Who was the complex, unhappy person behind the glamorous TV image? What secret demons drove her to her tragic early death?

Based on more than 300 interviews with Jessica Savitch’s lovers, colleagues, friends and psychiatrists, this sensational biography gives an accurate, fascinating portrait of her public and private lives, and for the first time pays tribute to a woman who beat the odds to triumph in her profession… but paid the ultimate, terrifying price.