White Collar Girl (Thorndike Press Lrge Print Historical Fiction)

The latest novel from the bestselling author of Dollface and What the Lady Wants takes us deep into the tumultuous world of 1950s Chicago where a female journalist struggles with the heavy price of ambition... Every second of every day something is happening. Theres a story out there buried in the muck and Jordan Walsh coming from a family of esteemed reporters wants to be the one to dig it up. But its 1955 and the men who dominate the city room of the Chicago Tribune have no interest in making room for a female cub reporter. Instead Jordan is relegated to society news reporting on Marilyn Monroe sightings at the Pump Room and interviewing secretaries for the White Collar Girl column. Even with her journalistic legacy and connections to luminaries like Mike Royko Nelson Algren and Ernest Hemingway Jordan struggles to be taken seriously. Of course that all changes the moment she establishes a secret source inside Mayor Daleys office and gets her hands on some confidential information. Now careers and lives are hanging on Jordans every word. But if she succeeds in landing her stories on the front page theres no guarantee shell remain above the fold.