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019			_a1045630097
020			_a9781432855840 _q(hardcover : large print)
020			_a1432855840 _q(hardcover : large print)
035			_a(OCoLC)1047576775 _z(OCoLC)1045630097
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043			_an-us---
092			_a629.1309 _bO13
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aO'Brien, Keith, _d1973- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFly girls : _bhow five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history / _cKeith O'Brien.
250			_aLarge print edition.
264		1	_aWaterville, Maine : _bThorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018
300			_a589 pages (large print), 12 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
340			_nlarge print _2rda
490	1		_aThorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
500			_aLarge print edition does not include index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 487-586).
505	0		_aThe miracle of Wichita -- Devotedly, Ruth -- Real and natural, every inch -- The fortune of the air -- The fairest of the brave and the bravest of the fair -- Flying salesgirls -- The 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 -- The top of the hill.
520			_aBetween 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.
600	1	0	_aElder, Ruth, _d1902-1977.
600	1	0	_aEarhart, Amelia, _d1897-1937.
600	1	0	_aKlingensmith, Florence Gunderson, _d1904-1933.
600	1	0	_aNichols, Ruth, _d1901-1960.
600	1	0	_aThaden, Louise McPhetridge, _d1905-1979.
611	2	0	_aBendix Trophy Race _d(1936)
650		0	_aAirplane racing _zUnited States.
650		0	_aWomen air pilots _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aAir shows _zUnited States _xHistory.
655		0	_aLarge type books.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft
830		0	_aThorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction.
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