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All Things at Once Editorial Reviews
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As the co-host of MSNBC’s popular morning show MorningJoe, Mika Brzezinski has established herself a leading political news journalist and beloved television personality. She daily interviews world leaders—Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain—and discusses the major events of the day with guests like Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews, Maureen Dowd, and Tom Friedman.
But success hasn’t always come easy for Mika. Growing up the only daughter of a former National Security Advisor, she struggled to find an identity in a family of over-achievers. She found her dream job early on and was hailed as the “It Girl” of CBS, only to be fired just a few short years later. After an unsuccessful stint as a stay-at-home mom, Mika went back to the workplace with encouragement from her 8-year-old daughter. She took a job that seemed a long-shot at best, and against all odds achieved the greatest success of her career. Now, in a time when many women are losing their jobs or struggling to find the perfect balance between work and home, Mika guides women of all ages to a place where they can find peace and fulfillment in their lives.
All Things at Once is a motivational book aimed at women, based on Mika’s own personal and professional triumphs and failures—all of which have led her to her current position as one of television’s most outspoken and respected journalists. Blending the personal with the prescriptive, Brzezinski’s book will address the perpetual question of “having it all” when it comes to work and family; the importance of remaining equally humble in the face of great success and seemingly devastating setbacks; as well as the necessity of knowing and embracing our limitations so that we may transcend them.
In the tradition of Gail Sheehy’s classic Passages, this illuminating book shows women how to reach their full potential in all areas of life, and at every stage of their journey. Readers will recognize their friends, their mothers, their daughters, and themselves in this refreshingly honest memoir.
All Things at Once Customer Reviews:
Average Rating: 3.5 (51 reviews)
Rating: 4 (Memoir For Everyone) Was helpful to 60 from 81 votes
I enjoy reading about others lives, even when I know very little about them. That was the case when I decided to read Mika Brzezinski's, "All Things At Once." I became a little worried when the marketing of the book was focused on career women. I have the wrong plumbing and I am perfectly satisfied working with my wife in her in-home childcare business. With that said, I went into this book wanting to provide insight relevant to anyone interested in Mika's book.
"All Things at Once," by Mika Brzezinkski reads much like how she describes her career. It starts out with the intention of doing great things. The focus of the book is pretty rough with signs of promise. There are parts that are good and others that fall short. By the last third of the book, the memoir comes into its own. It pulled me in and began to tug on me in an emotional way.
The beginning of the book takes a glimpse at Mika's childhood. It is interspersed with mentions of her career. Mika's father was the national security adviser during the Carter administration. Her family in all aspects were country folk that enjoyed hunting and had a lifestyle far removed from the Washington socialite scene they had become apart of. The memoir glances over this information, which if given more detail would have been excellent reading.
Mika goes on to highlight the start of her career. She discusses her choices that created a hectic and stressful life. All this leads to an accident that made Mika take a closer look at her decisions. This becomes a vital turning point in her life. Mika's family dynamic is different from the typical two working parent household. The demands put on Mika and her husband, because of their careers, creates an environment that may shock some reading the book.
As Mika details her first move to MSNBC, the focus of the book becomes clearer and the story begins to hold my interest better. Her experiences in the latter part of her career are detailed in a way that was very interesting and moving.
As described in the book, Mika stretches herself quite thin. With this in mind she put together a good memoir. If Mika had more time to dedicate to her book, it could have been great. Overall, I enjoyed the honest and telling look into her life. I would recommend it to anyone, not just career minded women.
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Meijer Bjorn, Reviewer for Bookpleasures
Rating: 5 (You CAN have it all.) Was helpful to 12 from 22 votes
As a recent college graduate about to begin my first 'real' job I was inspired by Mika Brzezinski's book All Things at Once. The book is influential without being preachy. It empowers women to not shy away from trying to 'have it all', you just have to realize you can't have it all at once. The personal anecdotes are both engaging and relate-able. I would highly recommend this book to anyone, especially those who want both a career and a family!
Rating: 1 (Who would take advice from this air-head?) Was helpful to 55 from 122 votes
Who would take advice from this air-headed ditz? Anyone who has watched her for 5 minutes on MSNBC would know she doesn't have an original thought in her head! She spends most of the show looking at herself in the camera, turning her head from side to side attempting to look thoughtful. And telling Joe to 'stop', 'stop', 'just stop'. It's all kinda of ridiculous. I use to try to watch...but just couldn't anymore...it's too painful!
Rating: 5 (Immensely compelling and surprisingly relatable...) Was helpful to 24 from 34 votes
I began watching Morning Joe as I got ready in the mornings my senior year in college. The mix of hard hitting news and light hearted banter made me an instant fan of the show, and co-host Mika Brzezinski. As a result I was interested in reading her memoir, though I did not expect to find any correlations or advice that resounded in my entry-level, post college life from such a successful woman with a famous father. I was pleased to find, however, that the honesty Mika writes with creates a must read book full of anecdotes from the unique point of view of a national security advisor's daughter and later succesful journalist, but also of an ambitious business woman and overwhelmed wife/mother. Mika's lifestory is an inspiring example for anyone who has struggled between balancing big career dreams and finding satisfaction in his/her personal life. I expected such a tenacious career woman to take a hard stance against settling down before acheiving corporate sucesss, but Brzezinski imparts sound advice and great perspective on the risks one takes in pursuit of having it all that have taken her her whole life and career to date to realize. A compelling book that you will be better off for having read!
Rating: 1 ((boring, dull and 100 percent egocentric )) Was helpful to 40 from 98 votes
The book reads as expected boring, dull and 100 percent egocentric . Honestly ,where does Mika get the idea that people really care about her thoughts and struggles through her career? (if one can really call it a career).
Keeping in mind she is a middle aged co-host on Morning Joe which airs so early in the morning that two thirds of the country is still asleep, she comes off as a bubble head bleach blonde who's only care in the world is viewing herself on camera while continually being mocked and laughed at by others guest and panel experts.
With Mika, a person must ask where is her creditability to speck or advise on any current issue, and is this a person I would seek out or model myself after? NOT! Is this a role model for women? I hope not, Mika is in the same league as Sarah Palin both meant to be forgotten.
