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An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing exceptional careers from 1840 to the present. 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 careers of standout woman reporters who covered the major news stories and every conflict at home and abroad since before the Civil War, and she celebrates those exceptional careers up to the present, including those of Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
About the Author
I'm a journalist, a professor of journalism at NYU, and the author of five books, the most recent of which is The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote. It launches Sept. 1. My website with full details is http://brookekroeger.com. See the 90-second trailer attached here and read up at http://thesuffragents.com
