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

“Particularly moving… Their solidarity was inspiring and sometimes intimidating… [Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie] offers a powerful lesson on what can happen when we carry as we climb.” –Washington Post, Best Nonfiction Book of the YearA group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and whose voices defined NPRIn 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,