Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of Npr

Synopsis

A GROUP BIOGRAPHY OF FOUR BELOVED WOMEN WHOSE VOICES DEFINED NPR. In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially true in the news business, a backwater of male chauvinism where job applicants were told that newsrooms “already had a... woman,” were hired as researchers, or, if they were... lucky, might get a foothold on the “women's pages.” But when National Public Radio came along in the 1970s, and the door to serious journalism opened a crack, four remarkable women came along and blew it off the hinges. Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie is a captivating account of these four women, their deep and [ enduring friendships, and the trails they blazed while becoming icons. Susan Stamberg was the first woman to anchor a nightly news program and pressed for accommodations to balance work and parenting. Linda Wertheimer, the daughter of shopkeepers in New Mexico, fought her way to a scholarship and a spot on air. Nina Totenberg, the network's legal affairs correspondent, invented a new way to cover the Supreme Court. And Cokie Roberts, born into a political dynasty, roamed the halls of Congress as a child and later helped explain Washington to millions. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of NPR. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Lisa Napoli has had a long career in journalism, including staff reporting jobs at public radio's Marketplace, the pioneering New York Times Cybertimes, and as columnist/correspondent at MSNBC. She is the author, most recently, of Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News. She has also written a biography of NPR benefactor Joan Kroc, Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away, and a memoir, Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth. She lives in Los Angeles. Note: Numerous URLs appear in the text and in the notes at the end of the book which contain audio segments that you can listen to on the Internet. When copying these URLs to your browser, be sure to eliminate the punctuation such as period or closing parenthesis which appears at the end of the URL.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

340 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781419750403

Publisher:

Abrams, Inc.

Date of Addition:

07/08/21

Copyrighted By:

Lisa Napoli

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs

Submitted By:

Terry Gorman

Proofread By:

Terry Gorman

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.