| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride: A Radio Biography. By Susan Ware. (New York: New York University Press, 2005. xiv, 304 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8147-9401-7.)

While there have been more than a few fine radio histories written by professional and nonprofessional historians in the last forty years, the last decade must be the golden age of radio scholarship. This is especially true of scholarship about radio's relation to American social and cultural histories, such as Susan J. Douglas's Listening In (2004) and Michele Hilmes's Radio Voices (1997). Those two scholars are attentive to the gendered dimensions of these histories, and Susan Ware's It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride continues this current focus in radio scholarship. Ware has not written about broadcast history before, but she has written biographies of women who might be considered, among other things, media celebrities (such as the aviator Amelia Earhart). Her biography of McBride, one of radio's most famous talk show hosts in the 1930s and 1940s, will not disappoint readers who are familiar with Ware's past contributions to feminist history and historiography, which have grounded biographical narratives of notable women in perceptive, thoroughly researched accounts of social and cultural contexts.

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