Doris Fleeson (Hardcover)
Sayler, Carolyn![Doris Fleeson (Hardcover)](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/698/6981834/CHSBZCOP036981834.jpg)
She was my idol, " said columnist Mary McGrory. McGrory, in writing of women, referred to Doris Fleeson as "incomparably the first political journalist of her time." Fleeson was, in fact, the first woman in the United States to become a nationally syndicated political columnist. In 1945, with the encouragement of Henry Mencken, she launched her column. In her career she would write some 5, 500 columns during the next twenty-two years. Fleeson'...