Going There (Signed by: Katie Couric) (Autographed Hardcover Bookplated Edition). This Hardcover Edition of Katie Courics Going There is autographed by Katie Couric. For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life a story shes never shared, until now. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, Television can put you in a box; the flat screen can flatten. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. This book is. Beginning in early childhood, Couric was inspired by her journalist father to pursue the career he loved but couldnt afford to stay in. Balancing her vivacious, outgoing personality with her desire to be taken seriously, she overcame every obstacle in her way: insecurity, an eating disorder, being typecast, sexism.challenges, and how she dealt with them, setting the tone for the rest of her career. Couric talks candidly about adjusting to sudden fame after her astonishing rise to co anchor of the