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 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-nominat...show more

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368 pages

Average rating: 7.02

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margardenlady
Dec 27, 2023
6/10 stars
This is such an important story and you can tell the book is carefully and lovingly researched. The movie was more compelling, however. The book reads like a research paper and fortunately the topic is interesting. I realize it would have been many times longer as a collection of anecdotes, so I appreciate the brevity. Nonetheless, I'm glad I read it.
SelinaM28
Sep 04, 2023
5/10 stars
It was a very good and interesting book
Arline
May 18, 2023
6/10 stars
Was looking forward to this read ...the content really interested me.... i found the first half of the book slow and felt i had to slog through it ...but the latter half of the book i enjoyed ... i felt this book should have been more intriguing due to the story but found it slightly boring .... too bad
E Clou
May 10, 2023
6/10 stars
I didn’t like the book at the beginning because I’d seen ads for the movie and thought I would be reading about the individual women. The author doesn’t do a great job writing about the separate characters of the women. As I kept reading though, I began to appreciate the amazing juxtaposition of the women’s developing careers against both civil rights history and science history.

P.S. The UVA "Corner Book Club" picked this as their first book for ...read more
JacquieO
Apr 25, 2023
10/10 stars
A great book that told the story of some remarkable women. It was well written, narrated story that really brought their lives into focus.

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