The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation (Pivotal Moments in American History) PDF
Preview The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation (Pivotal Moments in American History)
THE FLIGHT OF THE CENTURY p ivotal moments in american history Series Editors David Hackett Fischer James M. McPherson D avid Greenberg James T. Patterson Colin G. Calloway Brown v. Board of Education: Th e Scratch of a Pen: 1763 A Civil Rights Milestone and the Transformation and Its Troubled Legacy of North America Maury Klein Richard Labunski Rainbow’s End: James Madison and the Th e Crash of 1929 Struggle for the Bill of Rights James McPherson Sally McMillen Crossroads of Freedom: Seneca Falls and the Origins Th e Battle of Antietam of the Women’s Rights Movement Glenn C. Altschuler Howard Jones All Shook Up: Th e Bay of Pigs How Rock ’n’ Roll Changed America Elliott West David Hackett Fischer Th e Last Indian War: Washington’s Crossing Th e Nez Perce Story John Ferling Lynn Hudson Parsons Adams vs. Jeff erson: Th e Birth of Modern Politics: Th e Tumultuous Election of 1800 Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 Joel H. Silbey Storm over Texas: Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin Th e Annexation Controversy Th e GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans and the Road to Civil War Richard Archer Raymond Arsenault As If an Enemy’s Country: Freedom Riders: 1961 and Th e British Occupation of Boston the Struggle for Racial Justice and the Origins of Revolution THE FLIGHT OF THE CENTURY CHARLES LINDBERGH & THE RISE OF AMERICAN AVIATION THOMAS KESSNER 2010 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. O xford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi K uala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Th ailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2010 by Th omas Kessner Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kessner, Th omas. Th e fl ight of the century : Charles Lindbergh and the rise of American aviation / Th omas Kessner. p. cm. — (Pivotal moments in American history) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-19-532019-0 1. Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902–1974. 2. Air pilots—United States—Biography. 3. Aeronautics—United States—History—20th century. I. Title. TL540.L5K385 2010 629.130092—dc22 [B] 2010006082 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper B‘EZRAS HASHEM FOR RACHEL This page intentionally left blank “ Colonel Lindbergh has displaced everything . . . . He fi lls all our thought. He has displaced politics . . . . [H]e has lift ed us into the upper air that is his home . . . . We are all better men and women because of this exhibition in this fl ight of our young friend. Our boys and girls have before them a stirring, inspiring vision of real manhood. What a wonderful thing it is to live in a time when science and character join hands to lift up humanity with a vision of its own dignity.” Charles Evans Hughes, New York Times, June 15, 1927 This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Lindbergh’s Map , x Editor’s Note , xii Introduction , xv 1 You’re Your Own Boss, 1 2 A colyte of the Air, 20 3 A viation Takes Flight, 44 4 I ntricate Perfection, 5 9 5 Flight of the Century , 8 4 6 Vive Lindbergh! Vive l’Américain! 9 8 7 It Touched Off Aviation, 1 22 8 Airship Diplomacy , 1 45 9 Th e Lindbergh Era , 164 10 “We” Now a Trio , 1 80 11 As One Gains Fame One Loses Life , 201 Epilogue: Th e End of Heroes , 224 Acknowledgments , 2 41 Notes , 2 43 Selected Bibliography, 2 89 Index , 293
Description:The list of books you might like
