Sensational: The Hidden History of America's "Girl Stunt Reporters"

"A gripping, flawlessly researched, and overdue portrait of America's trailblazing female journalists." —New York Times–bestselling author Abbott Kahler

In the waning years of the nineteenth century, women journalists across the United States risked reputation and their own safety to expose the hazardous conditions under which people lived and worked. In various disguises, they stole into sewing factories to report on child labor, fainted in the streets to test public hospital treatment, pos...