Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Simon, Schuster, New York, NY, 2014
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9 1/4" X 6 1/4." 374 pages. "Journalist Sherr, a longtime friend of Ride, gets behind the walls of the very guarded and private pioneer in this engrossing biography.Sherr provides a window into one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century." (Publishers Weekly).
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- Título
- Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space
- Autor
- SHERR, Lynn
- Editorial
- Simon, Schuster, New York, NY
- Año de publicación
- 2014
- Estado
- Fine
- Sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1476725764
- ISBN 13
- 9781476725765
- Edición
- First Edition
- Catálogos de vendedores
- Biography, First Edtions, Non-Fiction
Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, she broke through a quarter-century of white male fighter jocks when NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, cracking the celestial ceiling and inspiring several generations of women.
After a second flight, Ride served on the panels investigating the Challenger explosion and the Columbia disintegration that killed all aboard. In both instances she faulted NASA’s rush to meet mission deadlines and its organizational failures. She cofounded a company promoting science and education for children, especially girls.
Sherr also writes about Ride’s scrupulously guarded personal life—she kept her sexual orientation private—with exclusive access to Ride’s partner, her former husband, her family, and countless friends and colleagues. Sherr draws from Ride’s diaries, files, and letters. This is a rich biography of a fascinating woman whose life intersected with revolutionary social and scientific changes in America. Sherr’s revealing portrait is warm and admiring but unsparing. It makes this extraordinarily talented and bold woman, an inspiration to millions, come alive.
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"As an astronaut who became an icon, Sally Ride was an inspiration to millions. But as Lynn Sherr documents in this candid, thorough, and touching portrait, she was also an explorer of life. I'm grateful to Lynn for revealing the Sally I never knew, and for filling an important gap in the literature of the U.S. space program."--Andrew Chaikin, space journalist and author of A Man on the Moon
"In this engaging and entertaining book, Lynn Sherr tells the story of America's exploration in the outer reaches of space and in the innermost attitudes toward human sexuality. We learn not only about Sally Ride's extraordinary life as the first American woman in space, but also for the first time of her intense and equally fascinating private life."--Cokie Roberts, author and commentator, NPR and ABC News
"A great American biography . . . Lynn Sherr's Sally Ride is a vibrant, honest, and at long last, complete portrait of the woman who bucked history, changed the space agency, and helped alter her country."--Sally Jenkins, bestselling author and journalist
"Wow. What a read. I was enthralled and enchanted. Sally Ride is a national treasure, free-thinker, and adventurer extraordinaire. Lynn Sherr's years as a NASA correspondent bleed through with the pulsing drama of our early space discoveries. And her close friendship with Sally renders the inside story replete with delightful and eccentric detail."--Diana Nyad, champion ocean swimmer
"An exquisite and careful biography . . . one of the most inspiring stories I've ever read about a woman at the top of her profession who never stopped pushing herself; who never stopped serving the causes she loved and who never lived a public life as the woman she really was. . . . I was moved, inspired and grateful for this detailed and compelling account of the life of such an extraordinary woman."--Nicolle Wallace, political commentator and author of Eighteen Acres
"Sherr portrays a complex woman, easy-going one day, hard-hearted the next and inscrutable about her 27-year relationship with her female partner."--Marcia Bartusiak "The Washington Post "
Beautifully done . . . impossible to put down. Sherr draws us into a will and a passion more vast than outer space. --Patricia Cornwell, international bestselling crime writer"
As an astronaut who became an icon, Sally Ride was an inspiration to millions. But as Lynn Sherr documents in this candid, thorough, and touching portrait, she was also an explorer of life. I'm grateful to Lynn for revealing the Sally I never knew, and for filling an important gap in the literature of the U.S. space program. --Andrew Chaikin, space journalist and author of A Man on the Moon"
In this engaging and entertaining book, Lynn Sherr tells the story of America's exploration in the outer reaches of space and in the innermost attitudes toward human sexuality. We learn not only about Sally Ride's extraordinary life as the first American woman in space, but also for the first time of her intense and equally fascinating private life. --Cokie Roberts, author and commentator, NPR and ABC News"
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