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04066aam a2200541Ii 4500 001 91E19F24839511EAAF1A611397128E48 003 SILO 005 20200421010121 008 180725t20192018mauaf e b 001 0ceng d 020 $a 9781328592798 020 $a 1328592790 035 $a (OCoLC)1045508364 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d IDLEW $d NJR $d FEM $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d IJ5 $d LKC $d ZLF $d OCLCO $d FM0 $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCA $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a TL539 $b .F549 2019 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a O'Brien, Keith, $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Fly girls : $b how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history / $c Keith O'Brien. 250 $a First Mariner books edition. 264 1 $a Boston : $b Mariner Books, $c 2019. 300 $a xiv, 338 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-327) and index. 505 00 $t The top of the hill. $t Devotedly, Ruth -- $t Real and natural, every inch -- $t The fortune of the air -- $t The fairest of the brave and the bravest of the fair -- $t Flying salesgirls -- $t The right sort of girl -- $t City of destiny -- $t If this is to be a derby -- $t There is only one Cleveland -- $t Good eggs -- $t Mr. Putnam and me -- $t Law of fate -- $t Give a girl credit -- $t Grudge flight -- $t Spetakkel -- $t All things being equal -- $t That's what I think of wives flying -- $t They'll be in our hair -- $t Playing hunches -- $t A woman couldn't win -- $t The top of the hill. 520 $a 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. 600 10 $a Klingensmith, Florence. 600 10 $a Elder, Ruth, $d 1902-1977. 600 10 $a Earhart, Amelia, $d 1897-1937. 600 10 $a Nichols, Ruth, $d 1901-1960. 600 10 $a Thaden, Louise McPhetridge, $d 1905-1979. 650 0 $a Airplane racing $z United States. 650 0 $a Women air pilots $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Air shows $z United States $x History. 600 17 $a Earhart, Amelia, $d 1897-1937. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00000122 600 17 $a Elder, Ruth, $d 1902-1977. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01635403 600 17 $a Nichols, Ruth, $d 1901-1960. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00274851 600 17 $a Thaden, Louise McPhetridge, $d 1905-1979. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01761441 650 7 $a Air shows. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00802593 650 7 $a Airplane racing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00803050 650 7 $a Women air pilots. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177058 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a O'Brien, Keith, 1973- $t Fly girls. $d Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 $z 9781328876720 $w (DLC) 2018026392 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230629023518.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91E19F24839511EAAF1A611397128E48 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search