Katharine Whitney Curtis - Mother of Synchronized Swimming (Paperback)

How do you invent an Olympic sport? For Katharine Whitney Curtis, it took the right idea, great talent, some good timing, and the determination to make it happen. The originator of synchronized swimming as we know it today, she even wrote the first book on the subject in 1936. But there was much more to her life and career. After the start of World War II, Curtis became a recreational director in the American Red Cross and followed the troops wherever the course of war took them, serving under Generals Patton and Eisenhower, before becoming a director of travel for the U.S. Army in Europe during the Cold War. Unbound by fear or the narrow expectations of society, this was a woman who lived ahead of her time, making things happen along the way. As her first biography, this book generously features Curtis's own words, selected from more than 2,000 pages of letters, and contextualized by her surviving friends and family members.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2020
Authors:	Jordan Whitney Wei
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-4766-6458-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Sport Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Water sports & recreations > Swimming & diving > Sub-aqua swimming Books > Biography > Sport Promotions
LSN:	1-4766-6458-7
Barcode:	9781476664583

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