Sally Ride was an amazing human being and Sherr’s book does an excellent job in researching and telling Sally’s story.I read this book after reading “The Astronauts Wives Club” by Lily Koppel in order to get the rest of two stories that start in Kippel’s book.The first story was the history of NASA. With equal abilities NASA could produce technological miracles while simultaneously crushing human spirits and committing preventable errors that killed astronauts. The wives of the early astronauts suffered oppressive scrutiny at the hands of NASA in cooperation of “Life” magazine. The stories of the disasters told well Koppel and Sherr's books should not be too surprising given the hyper image-focused culture of NASA.As for the second story, lots of books have dealt with the history of the women’s movement, but these two books provide an welcome addition to the literature. The astronauts wives and the government’s resistance to put women in space concern women who were very much in the public eye. The story both of these books tell show that sexism can be very egalitarian shafting all women regardless of public exposure.A couple of reviewers pointed out they felt Sherr’s book dragged occasionally weighted down with too much detail. I also found a few areas slow, but not necessarily the same as others. I was bored a little by the information on Sally’s business dealings. I think that criticism reflects the interest of we readers rather than skill of the author.If you can, I recommended reading both books. Sally’s accomplishments are even more amazing when you know about how women associated with NASA were supposed to behave only a few decades before Sally made her phenomenal breakthrough.