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 colourful 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.
- ISBN10 0801869625
- ISBN13 9780801869624
- Publish Date 17 May 2002 (first published 20 October 1983)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 September 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200
- Language English