Rachel Maddow, Lisa Rogak
Rachel Maddow, Lisa Rogak
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Rachel Maddow
A Biography

Author: Lisa Rogak

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/07/2020


Synopsis

The first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news.

Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: she uses her brain.

In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity's ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports. And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never hesitating to expose their light-on-facts defenses.

As a result, she's become the top anchor for MSNBC and a beloved representative for all that progressive America holds dear. The news that Maddow was the first publicly-out lesbian to anchor a prime-time TV news show seemed almost anticlimactic to her millions of viewers, who will be surprised and intrigued by little-known details of her life, as written by New York Times bestselling biographer Lisa Rogak.

About Lisa Rogak

Lisa Rogak is the author of numerous books, including And Nothing But the Truthiness: The Rise (and Further Rise) of Stephen Colbert. She is the editor of the New York Times bestseller Barack Obama in His Own Words and author of the New York Times bestseller Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart. Rogak lives in New Hampshire. Learn more at lisarogak.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on January 02, 2020

First book of 2020!! This was a fairly short read (just about 200 pages), on a person I greatly admire. I watched her show for years, but now listen to it while commuting to and from work each day. I didn't really know much about her as a person so I jumped at the chance to read this to get to know h......more

Goodreads review by Sue on January 10, 2020

I have been a fan of The Rachel Maddow Show for some time and late in 2019 was very glad to read Maddow’s Blowout, an excellent study of the political and environmental impacts of the international oil industry on us all. When St. Martin’s Press offered an opportunity to read Lisa Rogak’s new biogra......more

Goodreads review by Carol on May 22, 2021

I love Rachel Maddow. She is brilliant and I regularly watch her show. Unfortunately, this biography was a disappointment for me. This is our book group read for next month so I listened to the audio. From what I understand, the author didn't interview Rachel, which seems odd considering that she is......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on January 20, 2020

I have watched Rachel Maddow as a news anchor for cable news for as long as I can remember. I found her to be intelligent, fascinating and can really breakdown complex issues foreign to me, in bite size pieces that I can comprehend. This book was a really exciting read for me to learn more about the......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on December 21, 2019

Maddow has impressed me with her cogent and reasoned narratives in explaining news stories. Earlier this year I read her book Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russian, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth in which she explains the gas and oil industry's influence and power an......more