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Winters follows her biography of Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2006) with a refreshing look at Earhart. Resisting tabloid tales, Winters focuses on responsible accounts and Earhart\u2019s own writings to show how public demands and family pressures induced the aviatrix to fly beyond her capabilities. Although she is lauded as one of the greatest pilots of all time, Earhart\u2019s contemporaries were less charitable and more realistic, and while her death was mourned by all of them, it did not come as a great surprise. Winters pinpoints this sentiment at its most poignant by quoting WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) founder Jackie Cochran, who recalled telling her friend before the last flight, \u201cI wish you wouldn\u2019t go off and commit suicide because that\u2019s exactly what you\u2019re going to do.\u201d With erudite analysis of everything from Earhart\u2019s flying to her marriage and longtime financial support of her parents and sister, Winters proves there is still much to learn about this American icon. Earhart\u2019s disappearance is legendary; it\u2019s long past time to know its back story and why a final crash was always on the horizon. –Colleen Mondor<\/p>\n
Reviews<\/strong> \u201cWinters follows her biography Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2006) with a refreshing look at Earhart. Resisting tabloid tales, Winters focuses on responsible accounts and Earhart\u2019s own writings to show how public demands and family pressures induced the aviatrix to fly beyond her capabilities. With erudite analysis of everything from Earhart\u2019s flying to her marriage and longtime financial support of her parents and sister, Winters proves there is still much to learn about this American icon.\u201d\u2014Booklist<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIn this latest installment of Earhart historiography, Winters (Anne Morrow Lindbergh: First Lady of the Air) explores her subject\u2019s skills as an aviator and questions her character, thus providing another corrective to earlier Earhart hagiographies and popular perceptions. Earhart\u2019s accomplishments have been scrutinized for some time, and Winters\u2019s well-written and thoroughly researched study should serve as a final corrective. Recommended both as a character study and a technical study to general readers and specialists.\u201d \u2014Library Journal<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWinters follows her biography Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2006) with a refreshing look at Earhart. Resisting tabloid tales, Winters focuses on responsible accounts and Earhart\u2019s own writings to show how public demands and family pressures induced the aviatrix to fly beyond her capabilities. With erudite analysis of everything from Earhart\u2019s flying to her marriage and longtime financial support of her parents and sister, Winters proves there is still much to learn about this American icon.\u201d \u2014Booklist<\/p>\n \u201cKathleen Winters’s book is full of details I had never known about Amelia Earhart, which put her achievements and ultimate tragedy in a surprising new perspective. The author’s experience as a pilot herself comes through in every part of the book. Anyone interested in flying or women who defy stereotypes will enjoy this book; but it also is a study in the timeless American traditions of marketing and PR.\u201d\u2014James Fallows, Atlantic Monthly<\/em>, author of Free Flight<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cKathleen C. Winters promises to dig through the myths and heroic dross to look at Amelia Earhart from \u2018a pilot\u2019s perspective.\u2019 This she does with masterly story-telling precision, revealing the sad truth that the famous aviatrix was all too often (usually owing to conflicting demands) ill-prepared to undertake her many attempted record flights. The result is a sober and absorbing account of the world\u2019s most iconic, yet tragic female pilot.\u201d \u2014Larry E. Tise, author of Conquering the Sky<\/em> and the Wilbur and Orville Wright Distinguished Professor of History, East Carolina University<\/p>\n \u201cIn Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon, pilot and biographer Kathleen C. Winters draws upon new sources to give us a welcome and long overdue account of Earhart\u2019s tumultuous career, as well as the careful fashioning of her public image. A book with no small share of surprises, and an important contribution to the history of women and aviation.\u201d\u2014David Toomey, author of Stormchasers<\/em> and co-author of Amelia Earhart’s Daughters<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re only going to read one Amelia biography, make it this one. It\u2019s fast moving, puts all the facts in the context of the times and doesn\u2019t try to prove a point. It\u2019s hard to put down.\u201d\u2014Budd Davisson, Editor-in-Chief, Flight Journal<\/em> magazine<\/p>\n Praise for Anne Morrow Lindbergh:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n “A perfectly calibrated tribute to an early heroine of the air.”–Kirkus Reviews<\/em> (starred review)<\/p>\n “Both pointed and modest.”–The New York Times Book Review<\/em><\/p>\n “Beautifully written.”–Booklist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AMELIA EARHART: THE TURBULENT LIFE OF AN AMERICAN ICON Winters follows her biography of Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2006) with a refreshing look at Earhart. Resisting tabloid tales, Winters focuses on responsible accounts and Earhart\u2019s own writings to show how public … Continue reading
\n “Succinctly lays out the facts of Amelia Earhart’s remarkable story from ‘a pilot’s perspective’ . . . The author’s knowledge of aviation history renders this a proficient chronicle of women in flight.” —Kirkus Reviews<\/em><\/p>\n
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