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9780801869624

The Winged Gospel: America's Romance With Aviation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801869624

  • ISBN10:

    0801869625

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-05-17
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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Summary

From the day when two bicycle mechanics made the first flight at Kitty Hawk until the end of World War II, Americans invested extraordinary hope in airplanes, expecting them to revolutionize daily life and transform the world. For many, the flying machine became a virtual god. Exploring these early years of aviation, Joseph Corn describes the fascinating, and often bizarre, plans for the future of manned flight (including the Depression-era dream of "an airplane in every garage") and brings back to life the famous and lesser-known aviators who became American heroes--Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Calbraith P. Rodgers, and many others. Rich in colorful detail, The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation provides a vivid picture of America in the first half of the century and the exuberant and often utopian response to a major new technology.

Author Biography

Joseph J. Corn is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at Standord University.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Johns Hopkins Editionp. ix
Preface to the Original Editionp. xiii
"The Moment of Miracle": Americans Greet the Airplanep. 3
"A New Sign in the Heavens": The Prophetic Creed of Flightp. 29
"Let Your Airmindedness Be Shown Forth Among Men": Evangelizing for Aviationp. 51
Making Flying "Thinkable": Women Pilots and the Selling of Aviationp. 71
"An Airplane in Every Garage?" The Gospel's Most Pervasive Promisep. 91
Adults and the "Winged Superchildren of Tomorrow"p. 113
Epiloguep. 135
Notesp. 155
Indexp. 179
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