Through the Opening Door

<I> I also began to recognize the Depression's effect on everyday life including my family's. I learned not only to be thrifty but more importantly that I would probably have to work for a living after I graduated... In this I was probably ahead of the economic curve as I wondered how my Vassar courses would prepare me to earn a living after graduation. </I> - 1937<P>Adventurous practical and resolute pioneer journalist Nona Baldwin Brown has led an accomplished life with a high-profile globe-trotting newspaper career spanning more than three decades including World War II labor unionization the civil rights movement and the Kennedy era. Written with astonishing clarity and depicted by well-preserved photographs her memoir illuminates not only her inspiring success in a man's world but also the ideological tides of the twentieth century. </P>