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The Aviator and the Showman

Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon

Laurie Gwen Shapiro

2025

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Amelia Earhart and her husband.

Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights

The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.

by Laurie Gwen Shapiro via The New Yorker on June 2, 2025

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