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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a biography that can be enjoyed by all ages I am definitely one of those who knew of Annie Oakley only for her gun touting Wild West time with Buffalo Bill Cody. But she was so much more than that. A devoted wife and champion of charities; a advocate women owning guns and being in the military; the victim and fighter of yellow jacket journalism; an actress; and the list goes on and on. (Interestingly, she was against woman’s suffrage.) Annie came from a poor family and started shooting game as a way to provide. Eventually meeting and beating her future husband, Frank, at a shooting competition sparked the start of her career. However, an issue I had with this biography was that so much of it seemed excerpted from newspapers back then. It’s a short book and the amount used seemed equivalent to what a hefty bio would have. There were also many passages from journals and letters. I have nothing against using sources this way, but it became a little excessive. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Long before the screen placed the face of Mary Pickford before the eyes of millions of Americans, this girl, born August 13, 1860 as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, had won the right to the title of "America's Sweetheart." Having grown up learning to shoot game to help support her family, Annie won first prize and met her future husband at a shooting match when she was fifteen years old. He convinced her to change her name to Annie Oakley and became her husband, manager, and number-one fan for the next fifty years. Annie quickly gained worldwide fame as an incredible crack shot, and could amaze audiences at her uncanny accuracy with nearly any rifle or pistol, whether aiming at stationary objects or shooting fast-flying targets from the cockpit of a moving airplane. Despite struggles with her health and even a long, drawn-out legal battle with media magnate William Randolph Hearst, Annie Oakley poured her energy into advocating for the U.S. military, encouraging women to engage in sport shooting, and supporting orphans. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I hadn't known she was an actress either, that was really cool info to find out, and the book had a lot of that in there. All her life after Cody's show was super interesting. She seemed very committed to teaching women (and men to a lesser degree) how to properly shoot and seemed totally obsessed with making every one in the country a trap shooter.
I also hadn't known about how she went up against Hearst and his burgeoning empire in a ton of libel lawsuits and that changed the US too.
I wonder if not for Joel Sayre and John Twist (first movie with Barbara Stanwyk) about Annie and then Rodgers and Hammerstein then would we all know more about this great lady. The former writers took away the fact that Annie won and Frank married her, and then Rodgers and Hammerstein totally destroyed their characters. And this book did a good job revealing the real (and awesome) Annie Oakley.
Also, one of my favorite parts of the book was the pictures. They were totally awesome.
I was given this ARC by Netgalley on behalf of TwoDot. ( )