I watch her show (The Rachel Maddow show) only occasionally. I’m not sure why I wanted to read this book, really, as I’m not a crazy Rachel gusher.
She is so passionate about this that she doesn’t allow her staff to use question marks-seriously! That sounds like a tall order to me! She says, “There will never be a question mark used as punctuation in any script ever given to me.” (!) Here’s one: Her pet peeve is when a person makes a statement sound like a question (using the wrong inflection at the end of a sentence). Why does that crack me up so much? I think it’s because a blue head in a sea of black and gray politics seems beautifully incongruent, especially when the head belongs to a person who isn’t flashy, who doesn’t like to draw attention to her appearance.īut it’s not just blue hair that intrigued me there are plenty of other interesting facts about this TV brainiac newscaster. That’s my favorite tidbit from this biography. 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. And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never hesitating to expose their light-on-facts defenses.Īs a result, she's become the top anchor for MSNBC and a beloved representative for all that progressive America holds dear. 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.
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