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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
xiii, 568 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Undaunted is a representative history of the American women who surmounted every impediment put in their way to do journalism’s most valued work. From Margaret Fuller’s improbable success to the highly paid reporters of the mid-nineteenth century to the breakthrough investigative triumphs of Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger examines the lives of the best-remembered and long-forgotten woman journalists. She explores the...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James's soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR's All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and interview the secretary of state. Like millions of parents...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a social history of women journalists of the Gilded Age who went undercover to champion women's rights and expose corruption and abuse in America.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Physical Desc
viii, 254 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Growing up gifted and poor in small-town Arkansas, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives--broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York Times journalist chronicles her decade spent trailing Hillary Clinton as she pursued the presidency, describing her experiences through two presidential campaigns and how her own life ultimately became intertwined with Clinton's political ambitions.