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When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today
by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
This was a through look at four women, Hazel Scott, Irna Phillips, Gertrude Berg, and Betty White, and how they made their individual marks on television. In the the late 1940s to the early 1950s, Golden Age of radio, dominated by men, these women forged their own paths and have given us so much of how we watch television today all these years later.
It will come as no surprise that each of these women faced challenges, sexism, racism, politics, anti-Semitism, financial difficulties. But they never gave up and their determination in the face of heartbreak and rejection, is incredibly inspiring. Jennifer Keishin Armstrong takes an in-depth look at these four women, allowing us to spend time with each of them until it feels like we know them. Their brilliant minds, senses of humor, inward and outward grace, is apparent on each and every page. This is an important book. Read it.
It will come as no surprise that each of these women faced challenges, sexism, racism, politics, anti-Semitism, financial difficulties. But they never gave up and their determination in the face of heartbreak and rejection, is incredibly inspiring. Jennifer Keishin Armstrong takes an in-depth look at these four women, allowing us to spend time with each of them until it feels like we know them. Their brilliant minds, senses of humor, inward and outward grace, is apparent on each and every page. This is an important book. Read it.