dale presented a challenge, even amelia earhart. with her had to resist the challenge to write a biography about her because it is mostly what's been done with her life. write a biography of amelia earhart. there are some incredible ones. i know i was looking to tell a different story. mr. with an ensemble cast. so with her papers i had to really know what was important in my story and where to pare it down. but the bigger challenges with some of the other women. you know, people who did not live as long. people who were not as famous. early on, i did wonder, am i going to make ruth nichols come alive in three dimensions on the pages of the book? am i going to be able to make florence klingensmith come alive on the pages of the book? and you know, i got a lot of lucky breaks along the way. you know, where i found records, not necessarily on some of the big archives that we think of at harvard and the space museum in d.c. but little historical societies. tiny little places. in the town of morehead, minnesota, there is a little histor

when we think about women in aviation in the 1920s and 30s we tend to think about one woman, amelia earhart as if she was all alone. flying so low in the sky but in a time of earhart other women were flying with her forming this will scrap the squad. -- scrappy squad. >> welcome everyone and thank you for coming tonight. a few housekeeping things before we start. please turn off your cell phones and also as you probably know this is being recorded for c-span2 an opium booktv i guess in a few weeks. for the q&a session if you could wait until i can get to you with a mic so people can hear you and we will ask questions after the talk. andrea gabor has recently published "after the education wars" how smart schools handle the business of reform. she is the bloomberg chair of business journalist and taught at columbia university's graduate school of journalism. professor kapur has many publications in in "the news york times" this was done in the harvard is as reagan written several books including the man who discovered a quality how w. everts stemming brought revolution to america. her main a

when we think about women in aviation in the 1920s and 30s we tend to think about one woman, amelia earhart as if she was all alone. flying so low in the sky but in a time of earhart other women were flying with her forming

earhart lt. cmdr. robert randolph elseth jamie lynn fallon amelia v. fields gerald p. fisher matthew michael flocco sandra n. foster capt. lawrence daniel getzfred cortz ghee brenda c. gibson ron golinski diane m. hale-mckinzy carolyn b. halmon sheila hein ronald john hemenway maj. wallace cole hogan jimmie ira holley angela houtz brady k. howell peggie hurt lt. col. stephen neil hyland robert j. hymel sgt. maj. lacey b. ivory lt. col. dennis m. johnson judith jones brenda kegler lt. michael scott lamana david w. laychak jennifer lewis. and her husband. samantha lightbourn-allen maj. steve long james t. lynch jr. terrance m. lynch nehamon lyons shelley a. marshall teresa martin ada l. mason lt. col. dean e. mattson lt. gen. timothy j. maude robert j. maxwell molly mckenzie patricia e. mickley maj. ronald d. milam gerard p. moran odessa v. morris brian anthony moss ted moy lt. cmdr. patrick jude murphy khang nguyen michael allen noeth barbara k. olson. diana b. padro lt. jonas martin panik maj. clifford l. patterson lt. j.g. darin howard pontell scott powell capt. jack