A Journalist at War
Thornwillow’s first-ever fine press edition of "A Journalist at War" was originally offered as part of the April 2024 Dispatch.
This publication is offered in two editions:
- Classic Edition: Copies bound in letterpress paper wrappers
- Patrons’ Edition: Volumes featuring deluxe letterpress paper wrappers
In celebration of the first days of Women's History Month, it gives us great pleasure to present the next Thornwillow Dispatch by celebrated historian and dear friend Brooke Kroeger. Brooke is an exceptional writer and journalist, and for many years served as Chair of the journalism faculty at NYU where she was also the founding Director of NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. In the next Dispatch, she will share the amazing story of Ann Stringer, one of the most exceptional of exceptional women journalists of World War II, and of her adventures as a wire service reporter for the United Press.
Brooke Kroeger's recent book, Undaunted, is already considered the landmark history of women in American journalism. She is particularly captivated by the experiences of women reporters covering the front line during World War II and this month's Dispatch is as much an adventure ride as it is a telling account of one woman who surmounted every impediment put in her way to do journalism’s most valued work.
Brooke Kroeger is a journalist, professor emerita at NYU, and the author of six books, the latest of which is Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism, published by A.A. Knopf in May 2023. It explores how women have fared in American journalism’s most competitive and highly valued bastions.
Her earlier books are Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist (1994, an NPR Best Books of the Year); Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst (1998, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Books of the Year); Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are (2003, a Post-Dispatch Best Books of the Year); Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception (2012, finalist, Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award of the American Journalism Historians Association), and The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote (Gold Medal in US History in the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards and a finalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize of the Center for Political History.)
At NYU, she served on the journalism faculty from 1998 to 2021, and from 2005 to 2011 was department chair and founding director of NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. She created the MA unit Global and Joint Program Studies and directed this joint program field of study from 2007 to 2020.
Early in her career, she was UN Correspondent for Newsday and deputy metropolitan editor for New York Newsday. Over eleven years with United Press International (in its Scripps Howard days), she reported from Chicago, Brussels, London, and Tel Aviv, where she was bureau chief (1980-83) before returning to London to become the agency’s division editor for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (1983-84).
Author | Brooke Kroeger |
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About The Author | Brooke Kroeger is a journalist, professor emerita at NYU, and the author of six books, the latest of which is Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism, published by A.A. Knopf in May 2023. |
Set Product as New from Date | Mar 31, 2024 |
Dimensions | 4 3/4" x 7 1/4" |
Price View | Price Range |