Keith O'Brien

Fly Girls (eBook, ePUB)

How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A 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 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 ridiculeduntil 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 divorcee; 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 airplanesand in 1936, one of them would triumph, beating the men in the toughest air race of them all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781328876720
• Artikelnr.: 51229210

Autorenporträt

Keith O’Brien is journalist who has written for the New York Times and Politico and he’s a longtime contributor to National Public Radio. His work has appeared on shows such as All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and  This American Life. He is a former staff writer for the Boston Globe and the author of Outside Shot: Big Dreams, Hard Times, and One County’s Quest for Basketball Greatness. He lives in New Hampshire.