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Adventure is worth while in itself. Amelia Earhart, 1932

A fearless pioneer and a record-breaking pilot, Amelia Earhart engaged the nation and the world when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Today people remember her most for her disappearance on the last leg of her round-the-world flight in 1937. But more than a record breaker or a ghost lost over the Pacific, Earhart was ambitious, driven, and strong at a time when all three of these traits were considered unfeminine. Earhart s words and her example encouraged women to step beyond the narrow confines of...

The automaker s controversial legacy at the 150th anniversary of his birth

An illuminating collection of quotes, offering new insights on Henry Ford s sweeping achievements as one of America s greatest industrialists. His pithy perspectives will remain an inspiration well into the twenty-first century. 3/4Sarah Miller Caldicott, great-grandniece of Thomas Edison, coauthor of Innovate Like Edison and author of Midnight Lunch

Provides unique insight into Henry Ford s uneven mind, a mind that both shaped and reflected early twentieth-century American life....

The voice of the man who turned on the lights for the world

"Edison dispensed his opinions on every topic from microbes to the meaning of life."--Thomas Graham, author of Flagler s St. Augustine Hotels

"Michele Albion gives us a treat by carefully peeling back time and history to expose Thomas Edison s complex, and beautiful natural wood grain. You will laugh, ponder, and ruminate about the great man and his views; and his observations about life, technology and the future. It certainly is an interesting read."--John P. Keegan, president and chair of the Charles...