{"product_id":"the-aviator-and-the-showman-amelia-earhart-george-putnam-and-the-marriage-that-made-an-american-icon-hardcover","title":"The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaurie Gwen Shapiro\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBS Sunday Morning Summer Book Report Pick - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"Books to Read in July\" - A \u003ci\u003eTown and Country\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of July - An Amazon Best Book of July - A Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Best Book of July - A BookBub Beach Read Pick \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Laurie Gwen Shapiro has dug deep into the archives, and emerged with an exhilarating tale of the adventurous life of Amelia Earhart and the remarkable relationship that helped to forge her legend. Yet Shapiro goes even further--stripping away the myths and revealing something far more profound and intricate and true. \u003ci\u003eThe Aviator and the Showman\u003c\/i\u003e is one terrific book.\"\u003cbr\u003e--David Grann, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wager\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKillers of the Flower Moon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe riveting and cinematic story of a partnership that would change the world forever \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1928, a young social worker and hobby pilot named Amelia Earhart arrived in the office of George Putnam, heir to the Putnam \u0026amp; Sons throne and hitmaker, on the hunt for the right woman for a secret flying mission across the Atlantic. A partnership--professional and soon otherwise--was born. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Aviator and the Showman\u003c\/i\u003e unveils the untold story of Amelia's decade-long marriage to George Putnam, offering an intimate exploration of their relationship and the pivotal role it played in her enduring legacy. Despite her outwardly modest and humble image, Amelia was fiercely driven and impossibly brave, a lifelong feminist and trailblazer in her personal and professional life. Putnam, the so-called \"PT Barnum of publishing\" was a bookselling visionary--but often pushed his authors to extreme lengths in the name of publicity, and no one bore that weight more than Amelia. Their ahead-of-its time partnership supported her grand ambitions--but also pressed her into more and more treacherous stunts to promote her books, influencing a certain recklessness up to and including her final flight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarhart is a captivating figure to many, but the truth about her life is often overshadowed by myth and legend. In this cinematic new account, Laurie Gwen Shapiro emphasizes Earhart's multifaceted human side, her struggles, and her authentic aspirations, the truths behind her brave pursuits and the compromises she made to fit into societal expectations. Drawing from a trove of new sources including undiscovered audio interviews, \u003ci\u003eThe Aviator and the Showman\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping and passionate tale of adventure, colorful characters, hubris, and a complex and a vivid portrait of a marriage that shaped the trajectory of an iconic life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLaurie Gwen Shapiro\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Shapiro is the 2021 winner of the Damn History Article Award for her \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e piece \"The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker's Ashes\" and a gold medallion winner in the People Profiles category for the Silurians Press Club's seventy-seventh annual Excellence in Journalism Awards. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stowaway\u003c\/i\u003e, a bestseller and an Indie Next selection. She is an adjunct professor at New York University's Arthur L. 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