Synopsis
A young housewife walks into an Ohio newsroom that had not hired a woman in twenty years. What follows is one of the most remarkable careers in American journalism.
Jo Thomas spent more than twenty years at The New York Times covering stories that changed how America understood itself. The underworld of Detroit and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. A CIA scientist conducting covert experiments in New Orleans. The Cuban side of the Mariel boatlift. White right-wing enclaves after the Oklahoma City bombing. Timothy McVeigh's trial. And the back roads of Northern Ireland, where she investigated undercover police and army shootings during the Troubles with a courage that earned her an award named in her honour.
The men shunned her. She wrote the stories they missed.
Striving is the memoir of a woman who never became one of the boys and never wanted to. A journalist who comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable across four decades of American and world history. A pioneer whose story speaks to every woman who has ever been told the room she was standing in was not built for her.
Inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame. Winner of the Irish American Unity Conference Award for Courage in Journalism. Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
"One of the finest and most talented investigative reporters in America." — Dan E. Moldea
If you believe journalism matters and women belong in every newsroom, this book was written for you. Order your copy today or give it to the trailblazer in your life.
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