“Fierce Ambition” by Jennet Conant captures the rich story of Pulitzer-winning war correspondent Maggie Higgins.
Around 9 p.m. on many nights in the early 1960s, an exclusive by the journalist Maggie Higgins would roll off the New York Herald Tribune’s presses, and editors at the New York Times would call to ask their Washington staff to match her scoop for the next day’s paper. For years, Higgins drove her competitors into fits of jealousy and resentment.It is neither cliché nor exaggeration to say that Marguerite “Maggie” Higgins stood on the front lines of history.
There are countless complaints from scooped reporters, accusing her of stealing a look at their notes, stealing their stories outright or sleeping around to get access to her subjects. Higgins liked to have sex, Conant tells us, which was taboo for any woman in 1940s and ’50s America. “Men were congratulated for their office conquests, but women always wound up being judged for them,” she writes.
After landing a series of big scoops, Higgins convinced her bosses to send her to Europe in the last days of World War II. At age 24, she would be one of the first to witness the liberation of both Dachau and Buchenwald, interviewing dozens of emaciated prisoners for hours, after the other reporters couldn’t handle it anymore.
She would make enemies with some of the biggest names in the business: Homer Bigart, her competitor at the Tribune, hated her and eventually admitted, “She made me work like hell.” The wife of one of her colleagues wrote a thinly veiled novel about a seductive female correspondent who would do anything for a scoop. “If you listened to all the stories,” said Life photographer Carl Mydans, “you could conclude that she slept with the entire U.S. Army.
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