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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Margot Lee Shetterly |
ISBN: | 9780062798954 0062798952 |
OCLC Number: | 1007529471 |
Notes: | Includes P.S. insights, interviews, and more. |
Description: | xxii, 348, 14 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who move forward -- Breaking barriers -- Home by the sea -- The area rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of attack -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Outer space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- To boldly go. |
Responsibility: | Margot Lee Shetterly. |
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"Meticulous... the depth and detail that are the book's strength make it an effective, fact-based rudder with which would-be scientists and their allies can stabilize their flights of fancy. This hardworking, earnest book is the perfect foil for the glamour still to come." -- <b>Seattle Times</b> "Much as Tom Wolfe did in "The Right Stuff", Shetterly moves gracefully between the women's lives and the broader sweep of history . . . Shetterly, who grew up in Hampton, blends impressive research with an enormous amount of heart in telling these stories -- <b>Boston Globe</b> "Restoring the truth about individuals who were at once black, women and astounding mathematicians, in a world that was constructed to stymie them at every step, is no easy task. Shetterly does it with the depth and detail of a skilled historian and the narrative aplomb of a masterful storyteller." -- <b>Bookreporter.com</b> Read more...


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