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O'Shaughnessy, Tam

Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America's Pioneering Woman Astronaut

(4) 4-6 The astronaut's girlhood friend and tennis partner (and eventual adult life partner) offers a personal look at the first American woman in space. While the tone is unabashedly adulatory and upbeat, it's illuminating to read an intimate's account of this icon. The selection of photos is copious if uncritical, giving the book a scrapbook look. Timeline. Ind.

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