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One of the very precious radio show hosts of the 1940s and 1950s, Mary Margaret McBride (1899—1976) frequently drawn between six and eight-million fans to her daily one o'clock transmitted. During her two decades to the air she questioned thousands of individuals, from President Harry Truman and Frank Lloyd Wright to Rachel Carson and Zora Neale Hurston. This really is her story.Five years after their broadcast, her exhibits stay extremely fascinating and clean. And however McBride—the Oprah Winfrey of her day—has been virtually overlooked, each in radio history and in the history of twentieth-century popular culture, mainly because she was a lady and because she was on day radio.Susan Ware describes how Mary Margaret McBride was among the first to exploit the social and political need for talk radio, groundbreaking the journal-type structure that lots of talk shows nevertheless utilize.