When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish
- internationally famous, a daring & pioneering aviator, & ambassador extraordinary for the United States. Married to a man with a genius for publicity, her life was crowded, demanding & adventurous. Mary S. Lovell`s superb biography examines a legend to reveal the pressures & influences that drove Amelia, & shows how her life, career & manner of death foreshadowed the tragedies & excesses of a media-dominated age.