She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. Doris L. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the “What Happened to Amelia Earhart?” myth by disclosing who Amelia Earhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in the nineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twenty-first.
Chapter 2. Arrow without a Target
Chapter 3. Linen Wings and a Leather Coat
Chapter 4. Ceiling Zero but Lifting
Chapter 5. Across the Atlantic
Chapter 7. The Hustler’s Apprentice
Chapter 10. Reaching the Limits
Chapter 11. A Marriage of Convenience
Chapter 12. Victory and Vindication
Chapter 13. The Last of Lady Lindy
Chapter 15. The Queen and the Minister of Finance
Chapter 16. Across the Pacific
Chapter 17. The Flying Preacher
Chapter 18. A Threatened Partnership
Chapter 21. Just One More Flight