Undaunted : how women changed American journalism

A history of American women journalists from 1840 to the present, documenting how women overcame obstacles to their engaging in this most vital profession.  Among those covered are: Nellie Bly, Ida Tarbell, and Ida B. Wells, Brooke Kroeger,Martha Gellhorn, Rachel Carson, Janet Malcolm, Joan Didion, Cokie Roberts, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.