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Bestselling author Marie Benedict reveals the story of a brilliant woman scientist only remembered for her beauty.

Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side and understood more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star.

But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist. And she had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis and revolutionize modern communication...if anyone would listen to her.

A powerful book based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist, The Only Woman in the Room is a masterpiece that celebrates the many women in science that history has overlooked.

Other Bestselling Historical Fiction from Marie Benedict:

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie

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	The Other Einstein	Carnegie’s Maid	Lady Clementine	The Mystery of Mrs. Christie	Her Hidden Genius	The Mitford Affair
Don’t miss these inspiring reads from Marie Benedict!	The story of not-so-famous scientist Mileva Marić, who not only loved Albert Einstein, but also shaped the theories that brought him lasting renown.	Discover the story of one brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie's transformation from ruthless industrialist to true philanthropist.	The ferocious story of Clementine Churchill, the ambitious woman who did not flinch through the sweeping darkness of war, and who would not surrender to expectations or to enemies.	A thrilling reconstruction of one of the most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie's mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926.	Shines a light on Rosalind Franklin, whose world-changing contributions were hidden by the men around her but whose relentless drive advanced our understanding of humankind.	An explosive novel of history's most notorious sisters, one of whom will have to choose: her country or her family?

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Marie Benedictis a lawyer with more than ten years’ experience as a litigator at two of the country’s premier law firms and for Fortune 500 companies. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Boston College with a focus in history and art history and a cum laude graduate of the Boston University School of Law. Marie, the author of The Other Einstein, Carnegie’s Maid, The Only Woman in the Room, and Lady Clementine, views herself as an archaeologist of sorts, telling the untold stories of women. She lives in Pittsburgh with her family.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sourcebooks Landmark; Reprint edition (August 6, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1492666890
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1492666899
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.84 x 8.25 inches

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Marie Benedict is a lawyer with more than ten years' experience as a litigator at two of the country's premier law firms, who found her calling unearthing the hidden historical stories of women. Her mission is to excavate from the past the most important, complex and fascinating women of history and bring them into the light of present-day where we can finally perceive the breadth of their contributions as well as the insights they bring to modern day issues. She embarked on a new, thematically connected series of historical novels with THE OTHER EINSTEIN, which tells the tale of Albert Einstein's first wife, a physicist herself, and the role she might have played in his theories. The next novel in this series is the USA Today bestselling CARNEGIE'S MAID -- which released in January of 2018 -- and the book that followed is the New York Times bestseller and Barnes & Noble Book Club Pick THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE ROOM, the story of the brilliant inventor Hedy Lamarr, which published in January of 2019. In January of 2020, LADY CLEMENTINE, the story of the incredible Clementine Churchill, was released, and became an international bestseller. Her next novel, the Instant NYTimes and USAToday bestselling THE MYSTERY OF MRS. CHRISTIE, was published on December 29, 2020, and her first co-written book, THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN, with the talented Victoria Christopher Murray, will be released on June 29, 2021. Writing as Heather Terrell, Marie also published the historical novels The Chrysalis, The Map Thief, and Brigid of Kildare.

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Sunnie

I Never Knew

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 22, 2023

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What a marvelous and read! I have always loved reading about past movie stars but this book about Hedy Lemarr was eye opening in a fascinating and maddening way!

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Interesting, well written

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2023

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This book prompted me to read more about the time period and main characters. I loved the book, and couldn’t put it down for long until I finished. It was my church book club selection.

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Matt Young

Historically accurate, but only to a point

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 1, 2023

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I was somewhat suspicious of this author, who has (elsewhere) claimed without evidence that Einstein's first wife made major contributions to the theory of relativity and was then cast aside. In this book, she comes very close to claiming that the Navy refused to consider Lamarr's application of frequency hopping to guiding torpedoes. Indeed, in the novel itself, the charge is explicit, but the author softens it somewhat in an afterword. There is no evidence to support the claim, and in fact it is more likely that the Navy rejected the invention because they were not using radio to guide torpedoes so, in a sense, Lamarr was ahead of her time. Additionally, radio waves do not propagate well in salt water.

That said, the novel read well. Lamarr really did hold Louis B. Mayer up for a lot more money than he had originally offered. She may (or may not) have escaped her first husband by disguising herself as a servant. With George Antheil, she really did borrow technology from the player piano to apply frequency hopping to a practical problem (I do not think she and Antheil actually invented frequency hopping).

The book ends in 1942 on a relative high note, as Lamarr raises significant money for the war effort. It does not mention her several marriages and affairs, nor her failure as a film producer, nor her estrangement from one of her sons. More surprisingly, it does not discuss how she studied pictures of birds and fish, and helped Howard Hughes streamline his airplanes, which were downright boxy at the time.

I happen to have acquired Her Hidden Genius, a novel about Rosalind Franklin, a successful scientist who suffered discrimination because she was a woman. When I get a chance, I will read that book and report on it here.

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Lynne M. Spreen

Interesting but not emotionally compelling

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2023

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Hedwig Kiesler was born in 1914 to a well-to-do family in Vienna. Her father warmly indulged her, nurturing her stellar intellect, but her mother was a horrible, mean person to her. Discovered by a movie director at the age of 16, Hedy became notable locally. While doing a play in Vienna, she was noticed by a wealthy munitions dealer, Fritz Mandl, who wanted her for his showpiece wife. Out of fear for the changing political situation and to protect her parents, Hedy married Fritz. She soon realized she was a prisoner, only a piece of furniture. As the Nazis strengthened and her future became more precarious, Hedy risks her life to escape to America, where she becomes an actress and (spurned) inventor.

This could have been a more interesting book, but the author chose not to go deep. In this telling, Hedy is a two-dimensional character who makes up her mind to do X and it happens. If she fails, she tries again, and is successful. There's more than a hint of Mandl's cruelty and the horror of Hitler visiting their home, with Hedy hiding in a closet, spying on the top-secret dinner, is compelling, but this brilliant woman isn't fully fleshed out, in my opinion. Except for her father's concern for her well-being vs. that of the family, the emotional layer is missing. So, an interesting book but not a compelling one.

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Harl T. Asaff

excellent

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2023

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Can’t put this book down. It’s that good. Women need to read this book. Men need to read this book.

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Judy Vollmar

Beauty and Brains, Too Much for Men ToHandle

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 8, 2023

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Hedy Lamar was not only a ravishing beauty, she was also a genius. This is the story of how she and a noted composer and pianist developed WiFi. Hedy wanted the US Navy to adopt her technology to guide torpedoes to more effectively target and sink German Uboats during WWII. The navy balked because it said it couldn’t count on a technology developed by a woman, sailors would never accept it. Fortunately we won the war but we’ll never know how many US lives could have been saved using Hedy’s technology, the same technology that powers today’s mobile phones. Why are men so afraid of women and biased?

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Dreamer

Wow

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2023

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This book, or ones similar, should be required reading, not just for young women, but also for our nation and world's leaders. Women's minds are resources which should be respected, developed and utilized, not ignored.

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brillant women

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 22, 2023

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I liked everything about this book

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Mrs. B. A. Smith

This book will not be what you expect!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 10, 2019

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I have given this book 3 out of 4 stars. If I could have given it 3.5 stars, I would have, but that wasn't possible. I don't, off hand, know if I have watched a film with Hedy Lamarr in it, I may have done, but none comes to mind. Likewise, her physical appearance doesn't come to mind either...a bit before my time maybe? Although, the book was well researched and interesting in parts, there were other parts that seem to go on and on, if only I could have taken those parts out, or squashed them together, the book wouldn't have suffered from the midway slump that it did.

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Michael Powell

An amazing story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 23, 2019

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I knew of Hedy Lamarr’s inventiveness and particularly her patent of what became spread spectrum technology, so I was extremely keen to read about her extraordinary life. At the start I forgot I was reading about a real person, but when I recalled who she was, I could not but be amazed. I would heartily recommend people to read and learn about this outstanding, in every way, person.

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MMM

This had so much potential

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 20, 2020

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This is a good story, which whilst I enjoyed reading it in some parts, I was left lacking information at points in the book and certainly at the end. There were so many opportunities to elaborate the story line and build more impact and character information. I do think this will make a great movie, which would benefit from additional information. It was an okay read but I’d have loved to have enjoyed it, especially as it was based on a true story.

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Value for money!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 14, 2022

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Bought as birthday present for our daughter who enjoys a good read !

Barbara

Enlightening

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 20, 2020

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This is a fascinating insight into a famous movie star and gives insight into Austria in the 30s, Hollywood in the 40s and the place of women in society and science. How many other opportunities have also been missed due to the oppression of women and their ideas?

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