Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history

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Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history

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how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history

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Keith O'Brien

Language

eng

Summary

Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands of fans flocked to multi-day events, and cities vied with one another to host them. The pilots themselves were hailed as dashing heroes who cheerfully stared death in the face. Well, the men were hailed. Female pilots were more often ridiculed than praised for what the press portrayed as silly efforts to horn in on a manly, and deadly, pursuit. Keith O'Brien recounts how a cadre of women banded together to break the original glass ceiling: the entrenched prejudice that conspired to keep them out of the sky. O'Brien weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high-school dropout who worked for a dry cleaner in Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcee; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at the constraints of her blue-blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the mother of two young kids who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to race against the men -- and in 1936, one of them would triumph in the toughest race of all

Biography type

collective biography

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DLC

Dewey number

629.13092/520973

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illustrations
portraits
plates

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no index present

LC call number

TL539

LC item number

.F549 2018b

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

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Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction

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