This book examines the role of photography and the media in constructing AmeliA Earhart's iconic image, which remains as identifiable today as it was in 1937, the year her plane disappeared over the Pacific. Earhart's career in the public eye began in 1928, when she was selected to be the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, in part because of her physical resemblance to Charles Lindbergh. In a time when aviators were glamorous symbols of adventure and modernity, Earhart was launched into instant celebrity - aided considerably by one of the flight's promoters, publisher George Palmer Putnam, whom Earhart later married. Between 1928 and her disappearance, Earhart was frequently pictured in newspapers and magazines, which profiled her record-breaking flights, forays into clothing design, or her endorsements for everything from cigarettes to luggage.