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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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The #1 New York Times
bestseller
The phenomenal true
story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel
some of America’s greatest achievements in space—a powerful, revelatory history
essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern
America. The basis for the smash Academy Award-nominated
film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten
Dunst, and Kevin Costner.
Before John Glenn
orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong ...
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