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Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race Cover Image Book Book

Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race

Lee Shetterly, Margot. (Author).

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.

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  • ISBN: 0062363603
  • ISBN: 9780062363602
  • Physical Description: print
    xviii, 349 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First William Morrow movie tie-in trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2016.

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General Note:
Includes reading group guide (pages 347-349).
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Reading group guide.

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Subject: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Officials and employees Biography
Women mathematicians United States Biography
African American women Biography
African American mathematicians Biography
Space race
Genre: Biographies.

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Hidden Figures : The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Hidden Figures : The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
by Shetterly, Margot Lee
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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 was born in Hampton, Virginia in 1969. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. After college she worked in investment banking for several years. Her other career moves have included working in the media industry for the website Volume .com, publishing an English language magazine, Inside Mexico; marketing consultant in the Mexican tourism industry; and writing. Hidden Figures is her first book, a New York Times Bestseller and was optioned for a feature film. (Bowker Author Biography)

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