Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct. Carole King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Joni Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Carly Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively represent, in their lives and their songs,...

Weller rivetingly recounts these gutsy ladies' time on the front lines... an inspiration for future generations of journalists. --Vanity Fair
For decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism. After fierce struggles, three women Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour broke into the newsroom s once impenetrable boys club. These women were not simply pathbreakers, but wildly gifted journalists whose unique talents enabled them to climb to the top of the corporate ladder and transform the way Americans received their...