Agent: Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio. A captivating look at a small but significant piece of military and civil rights history. While they didn’t see combat (they were instead sent out West to become smoke jumpers), Stone’s final chapters reveal how the Triple Nickles’ service helped integrate both the military and society at large. Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream By: Tanya Lee Stone Narrated by: Susan Ericksen Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins Release date: 08-24-10 Language: English 20 ratings Regular price: 13.

Myriad quotations from personal interviews and more than 100 b&w photos reveal the heroism and perseverance of these groundbreaking men. Set against the entrenched racism of the 1940s, the nine chapters include asides about media stereotypes regarding African-Americans and how photographs of black soldiers were often left out of the military record. Almost Astronauts is a history text that is highly biographical. More than just an account of their endeavors during WWII, the narrative takes on a broader perspective as it contextualizes the story of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. Stone relates the story of women’s eventual entry to NASA’s space program by focusing on the stories of 13 women who dreamed of being astronauts and proved themselves through a private testing program in the early 1960s to be just as capable as their male counterparts. Stone (Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream) opens with an enticing question, “What is it like to jump out of an airplane?” The answer, which lets readers imagine doing just that as a paratrooper, will immediately draw them into this thorough story of the U.S.

Almost astronauts by tanya lee stone