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All Things at Once |  | Author: Mika Brzezinski
Publisher: Weinstein Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  51 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 1602861110
Dewey Decimal Number: 070.92
EAN: 9781602861114
ASIN: 1602861110
Publication Date: January 5, 2010
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As the co-host of MSNBC’s popular morning show Morning Joe, 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.
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 An interesting woman August 15, 2010
Dyerimage
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Nice writing style, interesting life story, enjoyed it. If your a fan of Morning Joe Or Mika buy it!
 Less to Mica than One Would Have Thought August 9, 2010
A. Mcintyre
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Other people have written about Mica's rock-solid belief that women must have a marriage, children and a career in their twenties, rather than later. Even with enless money to pay for round-the-clock baby sitters that belief does not turn out well for the author, although she never admits it.
I have another huge problems with the book. Mica as the youngerest child, and only girl must have had a tough time when she realized she was not as smart and talented as her famous parents or her older two brothers. She learned to lead with her own strong qualities: wit, a sense of the absurd and an ability to mediate. Those quality help with her family & at work. But, it takes a very long time for success to arrive in her chosen profession, on-air TV news and chat. Mica keeps comparing herself to her beloved mother who sacrificed her art to raise the family full time while her husband served for four years as Carter's national security adviser, and a professor before and consultant after.
I did not understand the comparison. Her parents were famous for their meaningful careers.
Mica's career was minor league, despite a loving, supporting husband and the means to pay people to be (often) a nearly full-time mom to her kids. Did Mica ever stopped and realized that she may have her parents drive, but lacked many of their other qualities that made them successful? I spent so much time writing this review because in almost every chapter we learn about how much her mom gave up in life (her art) to raise a family. Did her mom have one flaw, even a minor very small flaw? In her marriage, it's the husband who makes most of the sacrifics.
I hope Mica continued success with "Morning Joe," but I lived her better and had more respect before I read the book.
All Things at Once August 2, 2010
sunflower
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Book is fantastic. Very good writing, with depth knowledge of the subject. I recommend to read by all Amazon readers.
 An Unemployed News Anchor Parallels Life with turbulent career June 14, 2010
Dianne Walker (Virginia, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had the opportunity to hear Mika Brzezinski of Morning Joe speak at the More Reinvention Convention in DC a few months back. Down to earth, though provoking and humorous, I was compelled to read her book All Things at Once. It's interesting when you look at people on TV, it seems so surreal. You never quite picture the struggle they went through to get where they are.
Mika Brzezinski fired? We all have those low points in life when, not only are we not at our best, but when we stretch ourselves so thin for our jobs. Sometimes we don't realize that everything we worked for can be taken away at the blink of an eye. Ms. Brzezinski's struggles while unemployed, parallel the real life struggles that so many unemployed people are going through today - the loss of identity, the low self-esteem and the affect on the family.
I especially liked her comparison of a bad job to a bad boy friend - constantly saying yes to every request, never saying no. It's important to stand up for yourself at work and not be used by the company to which you have devoted all of you time and effort.
The lesson that I particularly liked for Ms. Brzezinski's book is the concept of taking a step back to move forward. Professionals always think it's a constant forward motion in their careers, not realizing that sometimes stepping back into a lesser position will move you forward more quickly and with better results then a constant forward motion.
Everyone will take away something different from the book. Some readers will actually focus on her Morning Joe performance. There are some who will read the book and focus on her apparent inability to take care of her children without the help of nannies. It's true that she is probably not the best mom, but if we punish every bad mom for being a bad mom, we'd have a whole lot of punishing to do. There are some that will focus on her rich parents and hold it against her. However you read the book, you will interpret it based on your own sense of values. I looked at the book as a career journey and found it to have insightful moments.
 She Can't Do All Things at Once April 29, 2010
J. L. Harrison
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
What a disappointment this book is! I get a real kick out of Morning Joe and thought I would really like Mika because of her very strong opinions and the way she keeps Joe, Willie, Barnacle and the rest of them in line. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Fueled by constant whining about how tired she was, the book is numbingly repetitive. To her credit, she's a very hard worker and seems to have married the world's most perfect man. I happen to agree with Mica that women should marry and have children while they're young. But Mica is living proof that you can't have "All Things at Once" and that she should have put her career into low gear while her kids were young. To call this book a "self help" book is a joke.
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