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Original Title:	Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
ISBN:	0062363603 (ISBN13: 9780062363602)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Hampton, Virginia(United States)
Literary Awards:	Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction (2017), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2016)

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

Rating: 3.95 | 69515 Users | 7865 Reviews

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Title	:	Hidden Figures
Author	:	Margot Lee Shetterly
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Movie tie-in Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	December 6th 2016 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published September 6th 2016)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Science. Biography. Feminism. Audiobook. Historical

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The #1 New York Times Bestseller. Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these ‘coloured computers’ used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets and astronauts, into space. Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War and the women’s rights movement, ‘Hidden Figures’ interweaves a rich history of mankind’s greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.

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This was such an extraordinary, exhilarating and important story to tell, but the writing was so dry, repetitive and full of platitudes that it began to dull the edges of this sharp tale. I really hope that the author was able to get through some revisions to work out some of the weaknesses in the writing because the story is so important -- it's about African-American women in the South who, because of the war, are temporarily able to secure jobs as 'human computers' at NACA -- which later



This book was everything I thought it would be, which unfortunately is why I didn't want to read it. So many friends told me that it wasn't what I thought, and one friend literally pushed her copy into my hands, and guess what, my fellow book nerds?? I should've stuck with my gut.Non-Fiction with a lacking narrative makes for tough reading. Add in subject matters that do not appeal to me: Space, Science, and Math. Finally, my biggest non-fiction pet peeve: no chronological sense whatsoever. Why

This was an interesting read. However, it was a bit of a let-down. While the story was interesting, the numerous facts and figures kinda got me a bit bogged down. Having seen the movie, I had thought that the book would have more detail about the involvement of the women and the space race, but it took nearly half the book to even get to that part (focused a lot on the women's involvement in the war effort during World War II). :( Otherwise, it was quite interesting and inspiring.

Short of just gushing about the brainy women featured in this engaging book, I'll say that I wish I could have known some of these women. Coming from a STEM background myself, I found it fascinating to hear about the personal and the professional lives of the women who worked at NACA (before it was known as NASA). Three of these women are followed in detail: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson. They, and all the other West Computers, worked unbelievably hard and with often

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly should just be a glowing ball of jaw dropping greatness heavily slathered in awesome sauce. Something Marsellus Wallace would keep locked up in a secure briefcase. The subject: black female mathematicians hidden but tremendously influential impact on the United States aeronautic superiority during the second World War as well as helping win the Space Race seems compelling, important, exciting, and timely. The book is historical so I can feel like a

I first heard of Katherine Johnson just a few months ago, when I was watching a Sci-Fi time travel series on television. Timeless was a lot of hokum, but fun, and interestingly, many of the historical figures in the stories were real, and portrayed as authentically as they could. So when I became aware of this particular black woman, a high-flying mathematician with the ability to think outside the box and learned that she had played a great part in the space race I investigated further.To my