#472 The Many Mysteries of Amelia Earhart

<p><strong>The aviation hero Amelia Earhart</strong>, who became one of the world's most famous women during the Great Depression, is one of those historic figures that people think they know quite well.</p><p>But during her lifetime, much of her public image was the product of a New York book publisher. And even today, Earhart's legacy is reduced down to seemingly strange disappearance over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.</p><p><a href="https://lauriegwenshapiro.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Laurie Gwen Shapiro</strong></a><strong>,</strong> author of <i>The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon</i>, joins Greg on this week's show to untangle her surprising and even provocative true story -- as a young midwestern woman who embodied the possibilties of flight through the persona of 'Lady Lindy' even though the lofty ambitions of her publisher (and lover) George Putnam often placed her in dangerous situations.</p><p>And New York C...