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| Earhart,
Amelia |
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20 Hrs. 40 Min. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1929. AE’s account
of the Friendship flight. The title refers to the duration of
that flight. |
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| Earhart,
Amelia |
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The
Fun Of It. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932.
AE’s autobiography (as of her solo Atlantic crossing) and paean
to other contemporary female flyers. The title explains why
she flies. |
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| Earhart,
Amelia |
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Last Flight. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company.
1937. Originally to be titled World Flight, this account
of Earhart’s second and fatal attempt to circle the globe was
posthumously assembled, and creatively edited, from notes she
had sent home during the trip. Interesting reading, but don’t
take it all as fact. |
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| Garst,
Doris Shannon |
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Amelia Earhart: Heroine of the Skies. New York: Messner,
1950. |
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| Howe,
James Moore |
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Amelia Earhart: Kansas Girl. New York: Bobbs Merrill,
1950. |
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| De
Leeuw, Adele Louise |
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Story of Amelia Earhart. New York: Grosset & Dunlap,
1955. |
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| Briand,
Paul L., Jr. |
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Daughter of the Sky. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce,
1960. The very first of the conspiracy books-Amelia flies to
Saipan by mistake (a course error of 90 degrees) and is captured
by the Japanese. |
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| Morrissey,
Muriel Earhart. |
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Courage is the Price. Wichita, Kansas: McCormick-Armstrong,
1963. Mrs. Morrissey’s account of her sister’s life and career.
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| Goerner,
Fred |
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The Search For Amelia Earhart. New York: Doubleday
& Co., 1966. A bestseller and the most influential of the
Earhart books to date. AE was a spy who was captured in the
Marshall Islands, imprisoned on Saipan, and died at the hands
of the Japanese. Well written. A conspiracy classic. |
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| Dwiggins,
Don |
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Hollywood Pilot. New York: Doubleday, 1967. A biography
of Paul Mantz with a substantial section devoted to his association
with Earhart as her technical advisor. His comment, ”She
wouldn’t listen to Papa” speaks volumes about both Mantz
and Earhart. |
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| Burke,
John |
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Winged Legend–-The Story of Amelia Earhart. London:
Arthur Barker, 1970. |
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| Klaas,
Joe |
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Amelia Earhart Lives. New York: McGraw Hill Book Company,
1970. Pulled from bookstores by the publisher following a lawsuit
by the woman Klaas (and sidekick Joe Gervais) said was Amelia
Earhart. Best read as fiction if you can find a copy. |
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| Pellegreno,
Ann Holtgren |
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World Flight: The Earhart Trail. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State
University Press, 1971. On the 30th anniversary of Earhart’s
final flight, the first of many Amelia-wannabes makes it all
the way ’round in a Lockheed Electra. |
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| Davidson,
Joe |
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Amelia Earhart Returns from Saipan. Canton, Ohio: Davidson
Publishing Company, 1972. When the name of the author and the
publisher match, it’s a bad sign. |
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| Davis,
Burke |
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Amelia Earhart. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1972.
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| Strippel, Dick |
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Amelia Earhart: The Myth and the Reality. Jericho,
New York: Exposition Press, 1972. An early, although not very
successful, attempt to establish the facts. This backlash against
the conspiracy theories has the flight crash at sea. |
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| Carrington, George |
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Amelia Earhart, A Report. Vancouver, B.C.: Britnav
Services, 1977. Earhart was a spy, flying to Howland and then
over Truk and Kwajalein before ditching and being taken in custody
by the Japanese who took her to Saipan. Amazing. |
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| Tanous, Peter |
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The Earhart Mission. New York: Simon and Schuster,
1978 (novel). |
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| Thayer,
James Stewart |
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The Earhart Betrayal. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons,
1980 (novel). |
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| Backus,
Jean L. |
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Letters From Amelia. Boston: Bacon Press, 1982. A collection
of AE’s letters to family, friends and business associates.
Provides some fascinating insight into a complex personality. |
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| Knaggs,
Oliver |
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Amelia Earhart: Her Last Flight. Cape Town, South Africa:
Timmins Publisher, 1983. Eyewitnesses around the Pacific clearly
remember the lady flyer who was captured by the Japanese. |
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| Loomis,
Vincent, with Jeffrey Ethell |
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Amelia Earhart, The Final Story. New York: Random House,
1985. Earhart was not a spy, but was mistaken for one when she
crashed at Mili Atoll in the Marshalls. Many documents reproduced
in appendices, most of which contradict the thesis of the book.
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| Chadwick,
Roxane |
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Amelia Earhart–-Aviation Pioneer. Minneapolis: Lerner,
1987. |
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| Devine,
Thomas E., with Richard M. Daley |
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Witness To the Execution. Frederick, Colorado: Renaissance
House, 1987. The U.S. Marines burned Earhart’s airplane on Saipan,
and Mr. Devine knows because he saw them do it. |
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| Donahue,
J. A. |
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The Earhart Disappearance: The British Connection.
Terre Haute, Indiana: SunShine House, Inc., 1987. Spies and
spies and more spies, spies everywhere you look. The most elaborate
plot yet, involving (apparently) everyone with 2,000 miles of
Earhart’s route. |
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| Morrissey,
Muriel Earhart, with Carol Osborne |
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Amelia, My Courageous Sister. Santa Clara, California:
Osborne Publisher, 1987. Basically a re-issue of Courage
Is the Price with many original documents reproduced. |
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| Brennan,
T.C. ”Buddy” |
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Witness to the Execution: The Odyssey of Amelia Earhart.
Frederick, Colorado: Renaissance House, 1988. More spies. Backhoe
archaeology on Saipan unearths the actual blindfold ripped from
Amelia’s eyes before she was executed. (We usually leave the
blindfold on.) A video is available complete with witness interviews.
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| Lovell,
Mary S. |
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The Sound Of Wings. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989.
Close –- but no cigar. The best of the biographies to date.
Generally well researched and extensively footnoted, Lovell
does fine until she tries to deal with the disappearance. Her
support of the crashed-and-sank theory is based upon opinion
presented as fact and facts that are not true. |
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| Rich,
Doris L. |
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Amelia Earhart: A Biography. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 1989. An endorsement by the Smithsonian doesn’t
excuse rumor and speculation presented as truth. Poorly footnoted
and often just plain wrong. |
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| Keyzer-Andre,
Henri |
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Age of Heroes. Mamaroneck, New York: Hastings House,
1993. The nonsensical autobiography of a self-aggrandizing character
who claims to have seen Japanese documents proving that the
Zero was based upon Amelia’s captured Electra. |
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| Brink,
Randall |
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Lost Star. New York: W. W. Norton Co., 1994. Perhaps
the most disingenuous of the conspiracy books. Shopworn and
thoroughly discredited speculation presented as new evidence.
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| Wilson,
Donald Moyer |
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Amelia Earhart: Lost Legend. Webster, New York: Enigma
Press, 1994. A festival of folklore. They’re all here, the eyewitnesses
who saw the lady flyer captured, imprisoned, or executed by
the Japanese and the American veterans who found AE’s suitcase,
briefcase, diary, etc. |
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| Roessler,
Walter & Leo Ganz |
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Amelia Earhart –- Case Closed? Hummelstown, Pennsylvania:
Aviation Publishers, 1995. Crashed-and-sank speculation based
upon bad information and unwarranted assumption. |
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| Mendelsohn,
Jane |
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I
Was Amelia Earhart. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc., 1996 (novel.) |
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| Anderson,
Alison |
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Hidden
Latitudes. New York: Scribner, 1996 (novel). |
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| Butler,
Susan |
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East to the Dawn, The Life of Amelia Earhart. Reading,
Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1997. A feminist biography, well-researched
and exhaustive. |
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| Long,
Elgen M. and Marie K. |
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Amelia
Earhart – The Mystery Solved. Simon & Schuster,
1999. 320 pp. $25.00 hardcover. |
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Amelia Earhart:
The Price of Courage. Television documentary, 1993, aired on
PBS as part of ”The American Experience” Narrated by Kathy
Bates. Hatchet job on GP, with episodes from Amelia’s life made up
out of whole cloth. Who says if it’s on PBS it has to be good. A bomb.
