Susan Reed

I n a dreamy, amber-filtered television commercial, Coline Jenkins-Sahlin, the great-great-granddaughter of the famous American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, strolls down an autumnal path, talking about how she found resonance with a woman broker at Merrill Lynch. At the end of the TV spot, Jenkins-Sahlin recalls the words of that other great suffragist, Susan B. […]

When a history of civil disobedience moves us, it is because the writer is able to convey the human emotion at the heart of efforts to stand against the crowd. Ruth Rosen in The World Split Open captures the rage that both forged and tore the women’s movement in the latter half of the twentieth […]

For Coca-Cola, things don’t go better with the Internet. Behind the story of the company’s recent settlement of a $192.5-million lawsuit brought by black employees is a tale of how a few determined activists used the Internet to create a public relations nightmare for the soft-drink giant. When Larry Jones, a former Coke manager, founded […]

B efore W., there was Q.–John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, the nation’s second president. The Adamses were America’s first political dynasty, and like Bush, Q. inherited his father’s first name and a well-worn middle one from a favorite relative. But American dynasties aren’t what they used to be. Where John Quincy Adams succeeded […]

White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America, Jill Andresky Fraser. W.W. Norton and Company, 278 pages, $26.95. While working through the 1980s and 1990s as a financial journalist, JillAndresky Fraser was bothered by an apparent paradox: She observed the “buoyantoptimism” of corporate executives and business boosters enjoying a rising stockmarket […]