Name: Let Me Off at the Top!
ISBN: 9780804139571

Ron Burgundy

The popular character from the "Anchorman" movies shares stories of his childhood and the events that led him to choose a career in the news business; personal anecdotes about the women in his life and his legendary news team; and advice on a variety of topics.

My Classy Life & Other Musings

Let Me Off at the Top!

_______________________ The autobiography everyone has been waiting for: a shockingly candid and raw confessional from an international treasure. The world’s most trusted and beloved television News Anchor, Ron Burgundy, pulls no punches in Let Me Off at the Top! Burgundy tells the tale of his humble beginnings in a desolate Iowa coal-mining town to his years at Our Lady Queen of Chewbacca High School to his odds-defying climb to the dizzying heights of Anchordom. In his very own words Burgundy reveals his most private thoughts, his triumphs – and his disappointments. His life reads like an adventure story complete with knock-down fights, beautiful women and double-fisted excitement on every page. He has hunted jackalopes with Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford, had more than his share of amorous exploits and formed the greatest on-air team in the history of televised news. Along the way, he’s hobnobbed with people you wish you knew and some you honestly wish you didn’t— celebrities, presidents, presidents’ wives, celebrities’ wives, dogs and, of course, Veronica Corningstone, the love of his life. Who didn’t Mr. Burgundy, or ‘Ron’, as he is known to his friends, rub elbows with in the course of his colourful and often criminal life? This may well be the most thrilling book ever written, by a man of great physical, moral and spiritual strength and, not surprisingly, a great literary talent as well. We owe it to him, and to ourselves, to read it. With never-before-seen photographs. Some in colour!

My Classy Life and Other Musings

Chris Aldrich

Erudition at it's finest. This Burgundy guy has led a life worth contemplating and it puts our current situation into high relief (or maybe bas relief, I can't remember which is which and someone borrowed my copy of the OED). I'm shelving this book right where it belongs between my copy of Robert Caro's biography "The Power Broker" and Samantha Powers' "A Problem from Hell." 

Strength of voice, power of character - this autobiography has got it all -- along with a few laughs to lighten up the sometimes dour mood of daily life. While on vacation on my third trip to Branson, Missouri, I got Ron Burgundy's autograph while he was having lunch with Carrot Top. I'm sorry he didn't include the episode in this book, but my brush with fame now lies more firmly ensconced in my memory.

Let Me Off at the Top! My Classy Life & Other Musings

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