It is her account of her time at CBS News during the Iraq War and a series of events which resulted in her losing her job.
[2] She also had produced a program on President of the United States George W. Bush's record in military service, but it was revealed that the program relied on forged documents.
Jonathan Alter in The New York Times described the book as "high-spirited, if overwrought and self-serving".
[1] Dave Denison of the Texas Observer wrote that the book appears like it is "conducting a kind of public therapy" to deal with Mapes' feelings, and then in the final 33% it becomes "a surprisingly compelling brief.
[4] James Vanderbilt received a copy of the work with a personal message from Mapes.