About this title: She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the "What Happened to Amelia Earhart?" myth by disclosing who Earhart really was--a woman of three centuries, born in the 19th, ...
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Description: Very good. Appearance of only slight previous use. Cover and binding show a little wear. All pages are undamaged with potentially only a few, small markings. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Description: Very Good. 1560987251 paperback in very good condition. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Cover has slight shelf wear. Appears gently read. Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Description: Very Good-Near Fine. 322 pp includes index and reference notes. Cover has no creases, bright clean almost no noticable wear. No former owner's name. Text is clean and tight. In near new condition. B/W photos at centre. read more
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"Overall this book was enjoyable, well written, but in my estimation two major flaws. First, after being spoiled by Goodwin, Rich has a difficult time making important people matter. Some of the people in Amelia's life I had a hard time keeping track of. Who they were, what they did etc...They all seemed important, but she never explained why well enough. Second flaw is in the Epilogue. When someone dies in the prime of their life I would like to know what happened to the family after death. Especially Amelia's husband who seemed to endlessly promote her for his own gain and celebrity. I'm not asking to double the size of the novel to explain, but would it hurt to write a couple of extra pages????"
"I love biographies that provide a complete and relatively unbiased telling of a life. This one strips Amelia Earhart of her myths (spy, genius pilot) and presents her as she was: an ambitious pilot who always did her best but was ultimately overcome by obstacles she could not control. She was not the most talented of women pilots, her marriage was practical not romantic, and she had serious difficulties with her mother and sister. However, this book presents all that, while retaining respect for her accomplishments and courage. A very good biography of a very interesting woman."
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