Fly Girls Kaylie Smith The New York Times Magazine’s

The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning 1619 Project issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative

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the troubling American histories of race

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Fly Girls Kaylie Smith The New York Times Magazine’sA New York Times Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice * A Time Best Book for Summer Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. While male pilots were lauded as heroes, the few women who dared to fly were more often ridiculeduntil a cadre of women pilots banded together to break through the entrenched prejudice. Fly Girls weaves together the stories