Article: Van Susteren takes her turn

Van Susteren takes her turn

Book tells of TV personality's rise from lawyer to cable news queen

By HOWARD KURTZ

Washington Post

Thursday, August 28, 2003

After the O.J. Simpson trial that propelled her to the pinnacle of legal punditry, Greta Van Susteren was on the phone trying to land the first interview with the disgraced football star.

Forty-five minutes later, she said: "O.J., can I have your phone number to call you back? I have to go pick up my husband, and if I'm late, he'll kill me."

She apologized after an awkward pause, one of the few times the mile-a-minute talk show host has been at a loss for words.

In her about-to-be-released book "My Turn at the Bully Pulpit," Van Susteren, ...

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