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Virginia Marmaduke: A Journey in Print from Carbondale to Chicago

English · Paperback / Softback

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Nicknamed "The Duchess" by a tongue-tied editor early in her career, Virginia Marmaduke is the First Lady of Chicago print journalism. She was the first woman to: cover both crime and sports for Windy City newspapers; be named (by Mayor Daley Sr.) to the Chicago Board of Health; be named Press Veteran of the Year by the Chicago Press Veterans Association; and to be inducted into Chicago's Journalism Hall of Fame.First with the Chicago Sun, then the Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune, the Duchess's newspaper career ran parallel to the 20th Century. She covered, as she called it, "blood, guts and sex," as well as presidents, natural disasters, women's issues, and-notably-humanitarian causes.This volume, the first on the life and career of Virginia Marmaduke, reprints many of the famous articles from her Chicago heyday. Additionally, it documents her childhood in Carbondale, Illinois, her first newspaper job, and her return to Southern Illinois where she became a community booster, humanitarian, and beloved "all-Illinoisian."

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Cary O'Dell is a graduate of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (where he first met the Duchess) and is also the author of "Women Pioneers in Television: Biographies of Fifteen Industry Leaders."

Product details

Authors Cary O'Dell
Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.06.2002
 
EAN 9780738519661
ISBN 978-0-7385-1966-1
No. of pages 128
Dimensions 167 mm x 235 mm x 9 mm
Weight 295 g
Series Voices of America
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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