Around 9 p.m. on many nights in the early 1960s, an exclusive by the journalist Maggie Higgins would roll off the New York Herald Tribune’s presses, and editors at the New York Times would call to ask ...

As recounted in Jennet Conant’s biography, Marguerite Higgins played the high-stakes game of journalism in a man’s world. By Joanna Scutts Joanna Scutts is the author of “Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- It's been said Maggie Higgins lived life "at a full gallop" as a pioneering female war reporter, but she died at such a young age so long ago that her achievements are less well ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jennet Conant is an Author with eight videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 Call-In as a Contributing Editor for the Vanity Fair. The year with ...

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Jennet Conant is the author of A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS.

Jennet Conant is the author of *The 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer*, * The Secret City of Los Alamos* and *Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the ...

Jennet Conant, the author of five previous books, has written for Newsweek, Esquire and Vanity Fair. How a Chemical Weapons Disaster in WWII Led to a U.S. Cover-Up—and a New Cancer Treatment The ...