“The best women reporters in Washington have always found unique ways to get their stories. This was especially true of society editor Hope Ridings Miller. Read about the rise of women in Journalism in this biography of a trailblazer.”
— April Ryan, White House Correspondent-American Urban Radio Networks; CNN Analyst; author


“At a time when people turned to newspaper society pages to find out what was really going on in the nation’s capital, Hope Ridings Miller was there to tell them. In this meticulously researched book, Joseph Dalton traces his cousin’s remarkable career as society editor for The Washington Post and observer of the power elite. Eleanor Roosevelt, Sam Rayburn, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Mary Pickford, Walt Disney, Jacqueline Kennedy, Pat Nixon and even the Hope diamond all make appearances in Washington’s Golden Age, but the real star is Miller, who not only documented a rarified world of high society and politics but lived it. Beyond the glittering social scenes, Dalton offers a glimpse of a time when women were just beginning to make their way in the newspaper business, when reporters and the people they covered were often allies, and when the rules of the game called for civility and manners – and sometimes even white gloves. The result is a book that will be appreciated by anyone who loves history, journalism or simply a good story.”
— Kristin Gilger, Senior Associate Dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University

“Joseph Dalton’s Washington’s Golden Age is a marvelous biography of the plugged-in reporter Hope Ridings Miller. The anecdotes told are dazzling and the research impressive. Highly recommended!”

— Douglas Brinkley, historian and author