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Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie

Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie

The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

by Lisa Napoli
Hardback
Publication Date: 24/05/2021

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A group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and 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 a woman might be lucky to get a foothold on the "women's pages." But when a pioneering nonprofit called 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, and Cokie is journalist Lisa Napoli's captivating account of these four women, their deep and enduring friendships, and the trail they blazed to becoming icons. They had radically different stories. Cokie Roberts was born into a political dynasty, roamed the halls of Congress as a child, and felt a tug toward public service. Susan Stamberg, who had lived in India with her husband who worked for the State Department, was the first woman to anchor a nightly news program and pressed for accommodations to balance work and home life.

Linda Wertheimer, the daughter of shopkeepers in New Mexico, fought her way to a scholarship and a spot on-air. And Nina Totenberg, the network's legal affairs correspondent, invented a new way to cover the Supreme Court. Based on extensive interviews and calling on the author's deep connections in news and public radio, Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie will be as beguiling and sharp as its formidable subjects.

 

ISBN:
9781419750403
9781419750403
Category:
Gender studies: women
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
24-05-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Abrams, Inc.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
229x153x32mm
Weight:
0.62kg
Lisa Napoli

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Lisa Napoli began her career as an unpaid teenage intern at CNN's New York bureau in the summer of 1981. As a journalist, she has worked at the New York Times, Marketplace, MSNBC, and KCRW. She is the author of two previous books, Radio Shangri-La and Ray & Joan. She lives in Los Angeles.

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