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What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His Blackberry and Started to Live His Life

Chris Licht was driven from an early age. At nine he tracked down a network correspondent on vacation to ask how to get into television, and by eleven he was filming himself reading the news. By thirty-five he had reached the top, running the morning show Morning Joe on MSNBC, one of cable's most watched programs, and he worked with a intensity that left little room for anything else. Then, in the middle of that relentless life, he felt a sharp pop in his head, followed by a rush of blood and terrible pain. Emergency doctors told him he had suffered a brain hemorrhage that could easily have killed him. He spent eight days in a hospital bed with nothing to do but think. This memoir covers what he did once he was given the chance to start again.

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