"We're all rough drafts … we don't know how we do in our lives until the very end," MSNBC anchor and journalist Katy Tur told me me in a recent "Salon Talks" conversation about the dual meaning behind the title of her new book, "Rough Draft." Of course there's the truism that journalism is a first draft of history, which Tur laid out in her first bestseller, "Unbelievable," about her time covering Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and being bullied by the former president.
This time, Tur sharies the stories of her childhood, including details about her parents, trailblazing journalists who utilized their own helicopter to videotape iconic events from the air, such as the 1994 low-speed police chase of O.J. Simpson in his white Ford Bronco. She also writes about her father's abusive behavior towards her mother and herself and the economic pain the family endured when her parents' journalism career took a tailspin.
