By John A. Greenwald
It wasn’t that Ruth Wightman Morris didn’t know the rules—it was that
she lived to break them. Fiercely defying expectations in every area of
her life, Ruth was at the forefront of the Jazz Age revolution. She was a
woman who could captivate every man in the nightclub—and the next day
set the women’s speed record in a race car, perform a stunt in a plane,
or get in the ring with a bull. Hers was a life of great successes and
great sorrows, fabulous parties and headline-grabbing scandals, love
affairs that could not endure and a dead body that could not be
explained. And until now, her story has gone untold.