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How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything
by Barbara Walters
from Doubleday

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• best resource I know for teaching interviewing.
  This is the best resource I know to learn or teach interviewing skills for therapists, journalists, and anyone else who interviews for a living. I checked this out years ago from the library and it was already out of print. I been a social worker, teacher and therapist for over 30 years and recommend this book to my graduate students in field placement. They have to hunt to find it but they all agree it is well worth it to find this fun and easy to read guide to overcoming your self consciousness,... more info

• Gentle and lovely
  Whenever I observe Barbara Walters on television she has shown calm and composure consistently. Reading the hardback first edition of "How to Talk with Practically Anybody about Practically Anything" I was amazed and totally taken in on all her purposeful little details of kindness woven through her plans of action. In her chapters she has great timing with laugh out loud humor woven throughout. Initially I had planed to brief this book, pick out chapters, not go through the whole thing word for word, but... more info

• Lots of helpful tips!
  I really liked this book! Ms. Walters reminds readers of some simple yet helpful things. For instance, she urges us not to be afraid to talk to a celebrity if we see one ("he or she has to talk to someone while waiting for their coffee to cool, and it might as well be you"), but she also includes useful cautionary notes ("never tell someone they look better in person than they do on television" or vice versa; don't mention a person's work unless you're *positive* it's theirs). She also talks about how to... more info

• Very Bad.
  Not very good. Title is decepive. More like an overview of Barb's old historical interviews.

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