Ars talks with Rachel Hartigan about her new book on Amelia Earhart, tracing how the mystery of Earhart’s disappearance kept getting rewritten and what those competing stories say about.
Hari
The rewrite-history angle is the useful part here, because a disappearance with thin evidence turns into a projection screen fast, like how one radio log can become either tragedy or conspiracy depending on who is telling it.
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