Susan, Linda, Nina, and Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR by Lisa Napoli

3.77 AVERAGE

emilyyyygut's review against another edition

5.0
informative inspiring medium-paced
I loved get this insight into the women who shaped NPR. Super interesting and has fun anecdotes.

ellenkyo's review against another edition

3.5
emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

ksoanes's review against another edition

4.0
As an NPR fan this was a great read.
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smily_tiffany's review against another edition

3.0
informative slow-paced
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agentcopykat's review against another edition

3.5
informative medium-paced

pennyriley's review against another edition

4.0
This excellent book tells the story of much more than these four extraordinary women, Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenburg and Cokie Roberts. While it tells the story of these four women both individually and collectively and the close ties they had, particularly Linda, Nina and Cokie, it does much more than that. It tells the story of it’s development from the beginning until the time when these women were retired from NPR and includes the 2019 death of Cokie Roberts. I found it fascinating, but the last part began to slow with one or two exceptions – Nina Totenburg breaking the story of Anita Hill’s accusations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas as he was being nominated to the supreme court – and still he succeeded, and Cokie’s death. There’s also a lot of social commentary and women’s advocacy. An enduring topic is the disparity between men’s and women’s pay; in fact one of the reasons that NPR, unlike most organisations at the time, encouraged the employment of women was because they were so much cheaper. I have been a huge fan of NPR since the beginning of my time in the USA, 1984 and had no idea how close it had come to complete ruin and closure the previous year. As well as the slower end, the other thing that lost this the fifth star was the lack of pictures. Unforgiveable. They mention and describe one picture at the end. Couldn’t they have actually included it as well as others of the women and other important people and events at NPR?

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stephtheartist's review against another edition

3.0
3.5 stars.. the second half of this book is what I was hoping the entire book would be. I really wanted to love it, but I didn’t quite get there.

tpanik's review against another edition

4.0
A solid history, full of the sweat equity that defines pioneers.

mugs_it_is's review against another edition

2.5
hopeful informative reflective slow-paced
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taralorraine's review against another edition

4.0
informative medium-paced