Talk about making a splash: Mary McGrory's first assignment in Washington was to cover Sen. Joseph McCarthy's hearings to root out communists in the Army.
McGrory had a knack for being first in a lot of different ways. She is the subject of John Norris's book Mary McGrory: The First Queen of Journalism.
McGrory rattled many cages and took no prisoners in a career as a liberal columnist stretching into the George W. Bush years.
Her biographer stops by to talk about McGrory's life and great body of work.