The Making of Amelia Earhart
Before she became one of history’s great unsolved mysteries, Amelia Earhart was busy inventing herself. In this podcast episode, Rachel Hartigan explores the decades before her disappearance, revealing a woman who understood media, branding, and public storytelling with a sophistication that feels surprisingly contemporary. Earhart wasn’t simply a pioneering aviator. She was also carefully crafting a persona that could carry ideas about women’s freedom, independence, and possibility into a culture that wasn’t always ready to hear them. (55 min listen)
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