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Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

Author	Lisa Napoli
Language	English
Subject	Autobiography, Biography, Women's fiction
Genre	Non-fiction
Published	13 April 2021
Publisher	Abrams Books
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
Pages	352
ISBN	9781647001070

Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR is an autobiography by journalist and author Lisa Napoli. It was published in the United States by Abrams Books on 13 April 2021.

Plot summary

Nina Totenberg, a young news reporter hustles for editorial bylines in the 1960s. She pitched an article on the way college women procures birth control pills. It was opposed by her male colleague, who asked if she was the rightful editor to do that—a virgin. It became a great problem which she tackled with other women journalists during that time. Since news sources denied access to such publication, some women journalists in the 1970s, started suing Newsweek, The New York Times, and others over gender discrimination. During that period, emerged a new nonprofit organisation called the National Public Radio.

Susan Stamberg in 1995, wasn't like her well established counterparts. She was ready to take in any worker especially women, and thus waa the root of hiring co-workers Totenberg, Linda Wertheimer, and Cokie Roberts. Totenberg became a free reporter, and wrote those stories she was denied in her former working center, thus earned her a reporter for the Supreme Court. Lisa Napoli, who was formerly a radio and print reporter. It also revealed the difficulty involved with the upkeep of the organisation. Stamberg's partner, who got employed in India, became a stumble, forcing her to quit her work. The book portrayed the lives of the four women Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg, and Cokie Roberts; whom were regarded as the founding mothers of NPR.

Reception

Zoe Greenberg, writing for The New York Times said "the book is a lesson in how the fringe project of one generation becomes the mainstream of the next."