The first Biography of the most popular anchor in cable news.
A stint at Air America raised her national profile, which led to her groundbreaking MSNBC show where she dissects the news of the day with an approach found nowhere else on TV..
She planned to pursue a career as an activist, but 9/11 changed all that, so she returned to local radio where she could help listeners by explaining stuff.
After attending Stanford and Oxford, she opted for a minimum-wage job as a radio DJ in a tiny Massachusetts market while finishing her Ph.
D.
Growing up in a conservative California town - and viewing herself as a perennial outsider - helped spark an early interest in activism.
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 .
As a result, she\'s become the top anchor for MSNBC and a beloved representative for all that progressive America holds dear.
And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never hesitating to expose their light-on-facts defenses.
In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity\'s ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports.
Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that\'s novel in today\'s America: she uses her brain.
The first Biography of the most popular anchor in cable news
