Everything about Laura Ingraham totally explained
Laura Anne Ingraham (born
June 19 1964) is an
American conservative talk radio host and
author. Her nationally-syndicated radio program is called
The Laura Ingraham Show.
Career
Ingraham grew up in a middle-class family in
Glastonbury, Connecticut and graduated from
Glastonbury High School in 1981.
She was educated at
Dartmouth College, graduating in 1985.
In the late 1980s, Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the
Ronald Reagan administration for the Domestic Policy advisor. She also briefly served as editor of
The Prospect, the magazine issued by
Concerned Alumni of Princeton. After receiving her
Juris Doctor from the
University of Virginia School of Law in 1991, she served as a
law clerk for
Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York and subsequently
clerked for
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She then worked as a private
defense attorney at the New York-based law firm
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
In the late 1990s, she became a
CBS commentator and hosted the
MSNBC program
Watch It!, which she jokingly says should have been called
Watch It Get Canceled! She appeared on a 1995 cover of
The New York Times Magazine in a leopardskin
miniskirt — which, she joked, is displayed in the
Smithsonian — for an article about rising young conservatives.
She is the author of three books:
The Hillary Trap: Looking for Power in All the Wrong Places (2002), which presents
Hillary Clinton as an example of the 'traps' women can encounter;
Shut Up & Sing (2003), which decries the elitist views Ingraham attributes to liberals working primarily in entertainment, academia, and the media; and
Power to the People (2007), in which she discusses conservative values concerning family life, education and patriotism.
Radio show host
Ingraham launched
The Laura Ingraham Show in April 2001, which is heard on 306 stations and on
SIRIUS Satellite Radio and
XM Satellite Radio. The show was originally syndicated by Infinity's (now CBS')
Westwood One, but is now syndicated by
Talk Radio Network. Ingraham is also the official guest host of
The O'Reilly Factor on
Fox News Channel and a weekly contributor with her segment "The Ingraham Angle."
As of 2008, Laura Ingraham is rated as the number 6 radio show host in America by Talkers Magazine (a publication that claims to be the industry's Bible). She was as high as number 5 in the past according to the same publication.
Ingraham is represented by the Executive Speakers Bureau of Memphis, Tennessee, and receives between 20,000-30,000 USD per appearance.
Books
While still a talk show host on MSNBC,
The Hillary Trap—Ingraham's first book—was released on December 25, 2002.
Ingraham's second book was published October 25, 2003. It is titled
Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the U.N. are Subverting America. Later editions have a slightly altered title, changing "U.N." to "Media."
Ingraham's most recent book,
Power to the People, was released on September 11, 2007. In this book, Ingraham focuses on what she calls the "pornification" of America.
Power to the People stresses the importance of getting involved in the culture:
Personal
Ingraham received her bachelor's degree from
Dartmouth College in 1985 and earned a law degree from the
University of Virginia School of Law in 1991.
Ingraham once was engaged to conservative author and fellow Dartmouth alum
Dinesh D'Souza and has dated former
New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Torricelli.
In April 2005, she announced that she was engaged to businessman James V. Reyes, with a planned wedding in May or June 2005. On
April 26 2005, she announced that she'd undergone
breast cancer surgery. On
May 11,
2005, Ingraham told listeners that her engagement to Reyes was canceled, citing issues regarding her diagnosis with breast cancer. Despite the breakup, she maintains that the two remain good friends, and has told listeners in 2006 that she's currently in good health.
She is a convert to
Roman Catholicism. In May of 2008, Ingraham began proceedings to adopt a young girl from
Guatemala, whom she's named Maria Caroline.
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