title: Oprah Winfrey: Talk Show Host and Media Magnate (Black Americans of Achievement (Hardcover))
author:  Sherry Beck Paprocki 
description: "The fresh design and...new material add up to a welcome new...volume in the essential Black Americans of Achievement, Legacy Edition series."<br /><br />"The updated format is brightened by added color illustrations... The text is very readable... library media centers...will want to order them... Recommended."
zlib_text: About the Author
  About the Author
  PATRICIA EVANS is an interpersonal 
  communications specialist and the 
  author of three books on the topic of 
  verbal abuse. She is also a consultant, 
  speaker and trainer. 
  Founder of Evans Interpersonal 
  Communications Institute (EICI), 
  offering workshops and information on 
  interpersonal communications, she has 
  single-handedly brought the subject of 
  verbal abuse to the forefront of 
  American consciousness-naming and 
  defining verbally abusive relationships 
  when they were still unnamed and 
  undefined. 
  Newsweek commended her first 
  powerful book on the subject, 
   
  (1992), as "A groundbreaking new 
  book." An expanded edition was 
  released in 1996 and appeared in 
   on New Year's Day 1998. 
  Evans has spoken on the devastating 
  effect of this "secret form of control" on 
  more than two hundred radio shows, 
  and thirteen national television 
  programs, including the Oprah Winfrey 
  Show, Sonya Live-CNN and News Talk. 
  Her second book, 
   (1993), explores t