Biographers do tend to become enamored of their subjects, sometimes embarrassingly so.
It's remarkable how well Amelia's marketing has held up over the years.
When I was in 7th grade, I found and read David Goes to Greenland and David Goes to Baffin Land, by David Binney Putnam. It's his wife we see with Amelia in Miami in 1937. I was about the same age David had been when he went to the Arctic, and my father having spent time in Greenland and having a love of the region, of course I imagined myself having an adventure like that. They went on the famed schooner Effie M Morrissey (which still exists) with the greatest of arctic skippers, Captain Bob Bartlett, in command. Now I wonder who really wrote the books and how much George may have been promoting young David.
LTM,
Don