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Author:
Alex Trebek
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
July 21, 2020
For over three decades, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek had resisted countless appeals to write a book about his life. After he was diagnosed with cancer, he felt compelled to finally share his story. The book combines personal anecdotes with Trebek's thoughts on a range of topics, including marriage, parenthood, education, success, spirituality, and philanthropy.
What The Reviewers Say
As it turns out, Trebek’s genius has never been in his intellect. It’s in his steadiness. If the book slightly tarnishes the image of Trebek that superfans may have constructed in their own minds, it provides something more deeply reassuring to replace it.
Alex Trebek is the one providing the answers and questions in a new memoir that should reinforce his admirers’ expectations.
...those who adore him for his reassuring nature and warmth likely aren’t interested in his literary prowess; they’ve come for his stories. And Answer delivers. It’s an amusing and at times sobering series of vignettes — a quickly inhaled highlights reel of Trebek’s life.
It’s little wonder that Trebek has written a memoir of consummate caginess, one of the wariest I’ve read: a friendly, often funny account marked by a reluctance so deep that it confers a curious integrity upon the celebrity tell-all.
