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Fly girls: how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
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Published:
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
Format:
Large Print
Edition:
Large print edition.
ISBN:
9781432855840, 1432855840
Status:
Description

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.

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Physical Desc:
589 pages (large print), 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Accelerated Reader:
MG+
Level 6.4, 8 Points
Lexile measure:
910

Notes

General Note
Large print edition does not include index.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-586).
Description
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.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)

O'Brien, K. (2018). Fly girls: how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

O'Brien, Keith, 1973-. 2018. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

O'Brien, Keith, 1973-, Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

MLA Citation (style guide)

O'Brien, Keith. Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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