East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: Media tie-in
- Author: Susan Butler
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Release Date: August 2009
- ISBN-10: 030681837X
- ISBN-13: 9780306818370
- List Price: $15.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryAmelia Earhart captured the hearts of the nation after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928. And her disappearance on an around-the-world flight in 1937 is an enduring mystery. Based on ten years of research, East to the Dawn provides a richly textured portrait of Earhart in all her complexity. It’s the perfect complement to the October 2009 movie Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, and Ewan McGregor. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Amelia - The Pride of Kansas
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Susan Butler has given us ten years of her life by sharing the story of our Kansas daughter, Amelia Earhart in East to the Dawn. This is a very generous gift! I was moved by her portrayal of Amelia and have come to view her as a charming person, a wonderful model, and an amazing heroine. It would have been a great pleasure to have met her in person but as that is not possible, Ms. Butler's book is the next best thing.
Looking forward to Susan's next book.
Don Anderson
Winfield, Kansas
Great Book
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I found the book to be very detailed and indept. The author did a tremendous amount of research prior to a writing the book.
Amelia Earhart: a Short Landing
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The limited promotion of the Amelia Earhart movie and the tepid response of the viewers should have forshadowned what to expect from this book. After reading it -- albeit I did skipped some pages, I felt like Susan Butler was attempting to write the epic novel replete with acts of "Moses parting the sea," (wherever Earhart goes, the crowds part)than to drill down and give us a dimensional understanding of this famous aviatrix. Instead, I felt like a box of photos were thrown on the table, and as each Brownie picture is picked up, the author exclaims, "Oh yes. This is what happened." I didn't get the intimacy from Butler's writing as I'm sure she was attempting to do. Instead, I read two, three paragraph vignettes of her -- and all those associate with her. I wasn't sure if she was attempting to recount history or capture Amelia in a new way. It was almost like stringing beads.
This is a whopping 487 page book,including an extensive index. Butler's backgrounding of Amelia's lineage was less than exciting. I'm not convinced it helped the book; I'm sure Butler was trying to use it to shape Amelia's character. Rather than describe snippets of Amelia's life, I would have preferred the writer to try and delve into her thoughts: what were her fears, insecurities? I would have preferred reading a less volummous book that reveals Earhart's personality than huff through pages of "and so..."
Finally, did I like the book? Yes...sort of.
A starry bio of singular aviatrix Amelia Earhart
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Susan Butler's biography of Amelia Earhart was called definitive by The New Yorker. Hillary Swank, star of the biopic AMELIA called East to the Dawn her bible when shooting the film and you can see why when reading this very thorough biography. It takes Earhart from cradle to uncharted disappearance over the Pacific during her round the world flights. It also unearths new information about her unconventional marriage to George Putnam. Earhart had a lover Eugene Vidal and was influential in getting him appointed First Bureau of Air Commerce under FDR.
This biography tracks Earhart from her beginnings and her family history, through her childhood as an adventurous tomboy who built her own primitive version of a roller coaster to dedicated social workers to world famous,
record-breaking aviatrix. Its a dramatic arc for one woman's life and Butler makes the most of it, using evidence and diaries that she alone unearthed.
The latest, best, most detailed biography of Earhart
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Gore Vidal wrote that East to the Dawn is the only biography "which recreates accurately that singular woman whom my father was in love with, as indeed was I, aged ten, when the the lady vanished."
He is right. It is a fascinating read. Earhart comes alive in these pages as in no other biography. East to the Dawn got first billing as the inspiration for the movie Amelia.
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