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Lynn Sherr, correspondent with ABC News' 20/20, has chronicled the women's movement and its history for many years, both on television and in print

Bevat de namen: Lynn Sherr, Lynn Sherr Editor

Fotografie: By Slowking4 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35034157

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Gangbare naam
Sherr, Lynn
Geboortedatum
1942-03-04
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Opleiding
Wellesley College (B.A)
Beroepen
journalist
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Organisaties
ABC
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
George Foster Peabody Award (1994)

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Sherr's biography of "AFWIS" (America's First Woman in Space), as she kiddingly called her friend, is endearing and well researched. It especially helped me to realize the broad and deep impact that Ride had in her post-astronaut life, as well as the hurdles that women and young girls still face in the fields of science and engineering.
And yet the story still feels incomplete because Ride was always such a private person in much of her life. Because of this, we would never have gotten a Sally Ride autobiography. So I suppose that Sherr's book is probably the best we can hope for.… (meer)
 
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Treebeard_404 | 8 andere besprekingen | Jan 23, 2024 |
Stopped reading about halfway through. The hunting chapter filled me with rage. Why the hell would someone who loves giraffes include a chapter consisting almost entirely of long rambling quotes from bloodthirsty bastards who got off on killing them?

No thanks, and I don’t even care if my one-star rating for this book is all because of one chapter. One star forever, book.
 
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Harks | 2 andere besprekingen | Dec 17, 2022 |
State by state city by city guide to all historic sites connected to women's history. Alphabetical index of women's names in back allows one to quickly find the pages that contain information on the sites associated with specific women. Comprehensive and a great reference book.
 
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MWMLibrary | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 14, 2022 |
This wonderful book is all about giraffes. Tall Blondes tells how giraffes astonished the first Europeans who saw them, and recounts many intriguing tales about these beasts that people made up when they were still a mystery. It moves the reader through culture and art, showing how the giraffe has paced along into modern times, still giving us things to wonder at, even as scientists and naturalists explain some of the mysteries of giraffes. Ends by featuring giraffes in zoos, safari parks, and even making an appearance in films. Lots of intriguing stories, myths and facts. The photographs and illustrations are beautiful, the content informative and often amusing as well. I also liked that the dimensions of the book itself mirror the subject- the copy I read was 9.5 x 6.5 inches, a narrow book that held in the hand felt taller than its fellows.… (meer)
 
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jeane | 2 andere besprekingen | Oct 27, 2019 |

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