Still Missing

"Entertaining . . . a kaleidoscopic portrait mediated through a feminist lens. . . . A wonderful evocation of a period in which, for one brief moment, the sky was the limit for female achievement, and the author understands that there is a kind of magic in celebrity that has less to do with achievement than with image." —Molly Haskell, New York Times Book Review

Still Missing is a fascinating biography of one of the most intriguing women of modern history. In it, Susan Ware recovers the parts of Earhart's life that have been obscured by the emphasis on her disappearance. Setting her in her place and times, Ware speaks of the woman who set aviation records, who endlessly championed the ability of women to enter any and all professions, who served as a dynamic role model because of her charm and spirit. She was a deeply caring social worker. She designed and wore clothes which had a freshness that makes her look in sync with fashion today. She was a tireless promoter and forged the modern use of media with her husband George Putnam. Ware's portrait of Earhart is a woman we all need to rediscover.

"Excellent. . . . Ware's analysis is particularly valuable, and one I would urge all feminists to turn to, when read in the light of what is now happening with feminism in this country." —Lesley Hazleton, Women's Review of Books

1994 / ISBN 0-393-31255-0 / Photographs / 304 pages / BIOGRAPHY/GENDER STUDIES

• Susan Ware is a professor of history at New York University. She is the author of Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal; Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s; and Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism and New Deal Politics. She splits her time between New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts.