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

by Ron Burgundy

A shockingly candid and raw autobiography from legendary anchorman, jazz flutist, and host of The Ron Burgundy Podcast, Ron Burgundy.

From his humble beginnings in a desolate Iowa coal mining town, his years at Our Lady Queen of Chewbacca High School to his odds-defying climb to the dizzying heights of becoming America’s most trusted and beloved television News Anchor, Ron Burgundy pulls no punches in Let Me Off at the Top!

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 his amorous exploits, and formed the greatest on-air team in the history of televised news. Along the way, he 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. Walter Cronkite, Barbra Streisand, Katie Couric, the list goes on. Who didn’t Mr. Burgundy, or “Ron” as he is known to his friends, rub elbows with in the course of his colorful 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. This book deserves a real shot at a Pulitzer Prize. In fact if it doesn’t win one then we will finally have proof that the Pulitzer is rigged.

Ron Burgundy has taken the time to write a book. We owe it to him, as honest Americans, to read it.

• ISBN10: 0804139571
• ISBN13: 9780804139571
• Publish Date: 19 November 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Crown Archetype
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780804139571

Reviews

[pamela]

It amused me for a day or so, but 'Let Me Off At The Top' will have little or nothing to recommend it to those not fans of the 'Anchorman' franchise.

True to the character a lot of the novel was US-centric, and not coming from the states myself, many of the cultural references were lost on me. This severely detracted from how funny I found the book as half the time I found myself googling 'celebrities' or products I'd never heard of.

It was good, fun commuting reading, but not a book you should run out to get a copy of. It was a distraction, no more, but to be honest that was pretty much what I was expecting. On that, it certainly delivered.