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It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride: A Radio Biography
Hardcover
Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies GeneralRadio
ISBN13: 9780814794012
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Feb 7 2005
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
One of the most beloved radio show hosts of the 1940s and 1950s, Mary Margaret McBride (1899--1976) regularly attracted between six and eight million listeners to her daily one o'clock broadcast. During her twenty years on the air she interviewed tens of thousands of people, from President Harry Truman and Frank Lloyd Wright to Rachel Carson and Zora Neale Hurston. This is her story.
Susan Ware explains how Mary Margaret McBride was one of the first to exploit the cultural and political importance of talk radio, pioneering the magazine-style format that many talk shows still use. This radio biography recreates the world of daytime radio from the 1930s through the 1950s, confirming the enormous significance of radio to everyday life, especially for women.
In the first in-depth treatment of McBride, Ware starts with a description of how widely McBride was revered in the mid-1940s--the fifteenth anniversary party for her show in 1949 filled Yankee Stadium. Once the readers have gotten to know Mary Margaret (as everyone called her), Ware backtracks to tell the story of McBride's upbringing, her early career, and how she got her start in radio. The latter part of the book picks up McBride's story after World War II and through her death in 1976. An epilogue discusses the contemporary talk show phenomenon with a look back to Mary Margaret McBride's early influence on the format.
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