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. - 1937 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.