Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (Paperback)

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by Margot Lee Shetterly

Description

The basis for the Academy Award-nominated film of the same name starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space—a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America.

About the Author

Margot Lee Shetterly grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in her book Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research on women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Product Details

Category: Nonfiction, History, Biography

Language: English

Format/Binding: Paperback

Book Condition: New

ISBN-10: 0062363603

ISBN-13: 978-0062363602

Publisher: Vintage

Date Published: December 06, 2016

Pages: 368

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