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Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
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- ISBN: 9781328876720
- ISBN: 1328876721
- ISBN: 9781328876645 (hardcover)
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1 online resource. - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "An Eamon Dolan Book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Miracle of Wichita -- Devotedly, Ruth -- Real and natural, every inch -- Fortune of the air -- Bravest of the fair, fairest of the brave -- Flying salesgirls -- Right sort of girl -- City of destiny -- If this is to be a derby -- There is only one Cleveland -- Good eggs -- Mr. Putnam and me -- Law of fate -- Give a girl credit -- Grudge flight -- Spetakkel -- All things being equal -- That's what I think of wives flying -- They'll be in our hair -- Playing hunches -- A woman couldn't win -- Top of the hill. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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- HARPERCOLL
A New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer
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Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculedâuntil a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.
Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcée; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at her blue blood familyâs expectations; and Louise Thaden, the young mother of two who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanesâand in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all. - HoughtonA New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer
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Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculed'until a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.
Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcée; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at her blue blood family's expectations; and Louise Thaden, the young mother of two who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanes'and in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all. - HoughtonA New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editorsâ Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer
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Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculedâuntil a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice.
Fly Girls weaves together the stories of five remarkable women: Florence Klingensmith, a high school dropout from Fargo, North Dakota; Ruth Elder, an Alabama divorcée; Amelia Earhart, the most famous, but not necessarily the most skilled; Ruth Nichols, who chafed at her blue blood familyâs expectations; and Louise Thaden, the young mother of two who got her start selling coal in Wichita. Together, they fought for the chance to fly and race airplanesâand in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all. - HoughtonThe untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930s'and won
- HoughtonThe untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high-stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930sâand won
