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.
This explosive, revelatory history of the early years ofpsychoanalysis shows that the bitterly unresolvable split betweenJung and Freud pivoted around a former patient and lover of Jung'swhose story and own potentially important theoretical contributionsto psychoanalysis were blocked by both men. "A huge scholarly work. . . gripping."--The New York Times.
In GRACE POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITEHOUSE , New York Times bestselling author Sally BedellSmith takes us inside the Kennedy White House with unparalleledaccess and insight. Having interviewed scores of Kennedy intimates,including many who have never spoken before, and drawing on lettersand personal papers made available for the first time, Smith paintsa richly detailed picture of the personal relationships behind thehigh purpose and poiltical drama of the twentieth century's moststoried presidency. At the dawn of the 1960s, a forty-three-year-old president and histhirty-one-year-old first lady – the youngest couple ever to occupythe White House – captivated the world with their easy elegance andtheir cool conviction that anything was possible. Jack and JackieKennedy gathered around them an intensely loyal and brillantcoterie of intellectuals, journalists, diplomats, internationaljet-setters and artists. Perhaps as never before, Washington wassharply divided between the “ins” an
