She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the lastdecade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame asthe best-known female aviator in the world. She set record afterrecord—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman,a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter forwomen'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 AmeliaEarhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in thenineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals anddreams relevant to the twenty-first.
