Anderson, Goldhamer, Lang, McCormack, and Sills take us to a different era of mass media, social science, and gender. They tell personal stories about influential institutions like Columbia University's Bureau for Applied Social Research, the Voice of America, and the Social Science review Council as well as anecdotes about the development of research methods like the focused interview. More generally, they give us a sense of what it was like to come of age as college-educated women among what has been called "the greatest generation."