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Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: she uses her brain.
In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity's ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports. And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never hesitating to expose their light-on-facts defenses.
As a result, she's become the top anchor for MSNBC and a beloved representative for all that progressive America holds dear. The news that Maddow was the first publicly-out lesbian to anchor a prime-time TV news show seemed almost anticlimactic to her millions of viewers, who will be surprised and intrigued by little-known details of her life, as written by New York Times bestselling biographer Lisa Rogak.
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Release date
January 7, 2020 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781541442412
- File size: 152607 KB
- Duration: 05:17:55
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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September 9, 2019
Rogak (Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words) delivers a flattering if light biography of cable news anchor Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. Rogak pieces together third-party interviews—with Maddow, her family, and her colleagues—to help tell the story. She covers Maddow’s early work as an activist for HIV/AIDS organizations; coming out at Stanford University (which she announced by posting fliers in a bathroom); receiving a Rhodes Scholarship and studying at Oxford; her relationship with her partner, Susan; and her radio work, including on Air America, which, in 2008, led to her getting the MSNBC talk show. The Rachel Maddow Show occupies the book’s second half, in which Rogak marvels at Maddow’s work ethic (her schedule “would break lesser mortals inside of a week”) and reports that Maddow favors doing her own research and writing for the show. Along the way, Rogak touches on Maddow’s personal interests (sports, specialty cocktails) and discusses her struggles with cyclical depression. This is a pleasant though by-the-numbers profile: thoroughly researched but not especially revelatory.
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