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Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly.
LIBRA - Rare QA27.5 .L44 2016b Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Women mathematicians--United States--Biography.
- Women mathematicians.
- African American women--Biography.
- African American women.
- African American mathematicians--Biography.
- African American mathematicians.
- Space race.
- Employees.
- Genre:
- Staff pick.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 349 pages ; 21 cm
- regular print
- Edition:
- First William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Author's note
- Prologue.
- A door opens
- Mobilization
- Past is prologue
- The double V
- Manifest destiny
- War birds
- The duration
- Those who move forward
- Breaking barriers
- Home by the sea
- The area rule
- Serendipity
- Turbulence
- Angle of attack
- Young, gifted, and black
- What a difference a day makes
- Outer space
- With all deliberate speed
- Model behavior
- Degrees of freedom
- Out of the past, the future
- America is for everybody
- To boldly go.
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Designed by Joy O'Meara.
- Motion picture artwork © 2016 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Cover photograph © Nino Muñoz.
- Includes reading group guide (pages 347-349).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-328) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has [3] leaves of Discussion Questions developed by Agnes Powell laid in.
- ISBN:
- 0062363603
- 9780062363602
- OCLC:
- 939993833
- Publisher Number:
- 9780062363602 51599
- Online:
- "The true story of 'Hidden Figures,' the forgotten women who helped win the space race," Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, September 8, 2016
- "The real story of 'Hidden Figures' and NASA's women computers, Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, December 21, 2016
- "The true story of 'Hidden Figures,' the forgotten women who helped win the space race," Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, September 8, 2016
- http://margotleeshetterly.com/
- http://corporate.harpercollins.com/us/harpercollins-imprints
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