Driftwood in a Time of War

Few women journalists have been as well placed as Marie Christopherson to record and comment on the sweeping changes that small-town America was undergoing during the War years 1942 to 1944. As the wife of the most powerful newspaper editor in South Dakota, she wrote upon his command. And yet she became the most forceful voice for women's rights that her state has known and displays as well in many of her weekly columns the acute and supple mind that is the hallmark of the first-rate essayist…