03213nam 22006374a 450 991081402700332120200520144314.00-8147-8466-60-8147-9504-81-4294-1499-510.18574/nyu/9780814795040(CKB)1000000000467164(EBL)866144(OCoLC)779828444(SSID)ssj0000184617(PQKBManifestationID)11165941(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184617(PQKBWorkID)10200944(PQKB)11185507(MiAaPQ)EBC866144(OCoLC)320321401(MdBmJHUP)muse10396(Au-PeEL)EBL866144(CaPaEBR)ebr10137137(DE-B1597)548153(DE-B1597)9780814795040(EXLCZ)99100000000046716420040708d2005 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrIt's one o'clock and here is Mary Margaret McBride a radio biography /Susan Ware1st ed.New York New York University Pressc20051 online resource (319 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-9401-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Prologue: Voice of America; Part I. THE HEIGHT OF THE PROGRAM; " Here Comes McBride"; Mary Margaret's Radio Technique; " Under Cover of Daytime"; Mary Margaret's Bond with Listeners; " The Appetite as Voice"; Doing the Products; Part II. BECOMING MARY MARGARET MCBRIDE; Listening to Lives; A Missouri Childhood; Stella; The Journalist and the Writer; Men, Marriage, and Sex; Affluence and Depression; " I Murdered Grandma"; Citrus Follies; The War Years; Part III. TRANSITIONS; Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Margaret McBride, and Postwar Politics; TelevisionThe Last Show: May 14, 1954 Cookbooks, Columns, and Commentary; " Good-bye, Y'all"; Epilogue: Talk Shows, Then and Now; Notes; Index; About the AuthorOne of the most beloved radio show hosts of the 1940's and 1950's, 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. Five decades after their broadcast, her shows remain remarkably fresh and interesting. And yet McBride-the Oprah Winfrey of her day-has been practically forgotten, both in radio history and in the history of twentiIt is one o'clock and here is Mary Margaret McBrideRadio broadcastersUnited StatesBiographyRadio broadcasters791.4402/8/092BWare Susan1950-788030MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814027003321It's one o'clock and here is Mary Margaret McBride4063787UNINA