"This is an intimate and enormously appealing biography of a fascinating woman, a triumph of research and sensitivity that lives up to its subject and will likely move readers to tears in its final, poignant pages. ISBN-10: 0836227697 I was moved, inspired and grateful for this detailed and compelling account of the life of such an extraordinary woman. . .
Revealing…The Sally Ride that emerges here — courageous, gifted, determined, complicated, conflicted — is both heroic and human. impossible to put down. Sherr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore. Lynn Sherr is an award-winning broadcaster and author who spent more than thirty years at ABC News. "As an astronaut who became an icon, Sally Ride was an inspiration to millions.
—Booklist Starred Review"Sherr portrays a complex woman, easy-going one day, hard-hearted the next and inscrutable about her 27-year relationship with her female partner.
She reported on the NASA space shuttle program from its inception in 1981 through the Challenger explosion in 1986.
Available in used condition with free delivery in the US. For more than thirty years, she was an award-winning correspondent for ABC News.
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She is the author of Tall Blondes: A Book About Giraffes; Outside the Box: A Memoir; America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation’s Favorite Song; and Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Words.She coedited Peter Jennings, A Reporter’s Life. Lynn Sherr’s Sally Ride is a vibrant, honest, and at long last, complete portrait of the woman who bucked history, changed the space agency, and helped alter her country.
Sally Ride is a national treasure, free-thinker, and adventurer extraordinaire. "This is an intimate and enormously appealing biography of a fascinating woman, a triumph of research and sensitivity that lives up to its subject and will likely move readers to tears.
She reported on the NASA space shuttle program from its inception in 1981 through the Challenger explosion in 1986.Sherr’s numerous awards include an Emmy, two American Women in Radio and Television Commendation awards, a Gracie Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award. None. Broadcast journalist and writer Lynn Sherr was an award-winning correspondent for more than thirty years at ABC News. She has since expanded both her strokes and her waterways. She reported on the NASA space shuttle program from its inception in 1981 through the Challenger explosion in 1986.Sherr’s numerous awards include an Emmy, two American Women in Radio and Television Commendation awards, a Gracie Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award. Oh, it's not a *bad* book -- Sherr includes some interesting stories of breaking into the male-dominated world of journalism, amusing anecdotes about her work as a correspondent for ABC News and honest tales of her personal life. Sherr’s numerous awards include an Emmy, two American Women in Radio and Television Commendation awards, a Gracie Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award.
Lynn Sherr seems like a awfully nice person, so it pains me a bit to say this: Her memoir is just so-so. Hundreds of books have been written about dogs and cats. . What a read. Marking the 175th anniversary of … one of the most inspiring stories I've ever read about a woman at the top of her profession who never stopped pushing herself; who never stopped serving the causes she loved and who never lived a public life as the woman she really was. But how many non-scholarly books have been written about giraffes-one of nature's most intriguing and unique animals? The author discussed her book [Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony In Her Own Words], published by Times Books. See all books authored by Lynn Sherr, including Tall Blondes: A Book About Giraffes, and America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation's Favorite Song, and more on ThriftBooks.com. Looking for books by Lynn Sherr?
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Stöbere im größten eBookstore der Welt und lies noch heute im Web, auf deinem Tablet, Telefon oder E-Reader.Lynn Sherr is an award-winning broadcaster and author who spent more than thirty years at ABC News.