WAITING FOR PRIME TIME: The Women of Television News by Sanders, Marlene, and Marcia Rock - (1988)

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1988). First edition. A behind-the-scenes look at women in broadcasting. INSCRIBED BY SANDERS AND ROCK, "10/25/88 | To [Cooper? Casper?] - | with appreciation - | Marlene Sanders | Marcia Rock." The "groundbreaking first history of the 'underground' women's movement at the networks ... told with no holds barred by a leader of that struggle, which is still going on." -- Betty Friedan, dust jacket blurb. Sanders (1931-2015) was the first woman to anchor a major-network newscast, first woman to report from the field during the Vietnam War, and first female national news division executive. Rock is an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer and professor of Journalism at NYU. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Sanders, Leslie Stahl, Faith Daniels, Diane Sawyer, Andrea Mitchell, Carole Simpson, Hilary Brown, et al. Fine in fine dust jacket.