Boys' books, boys' dreams, and the mystique of flight / Fred Erisman.
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Language: | English |
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Fort Worth, Tex. :
Texas Christian University Press,
[2006], ©2006.
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Physical Description: | xx, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Setting the stage : technology and the series book
- Birdmen and boys, 1905-1915
- Aces and combat : World War I and after, 1915-1935
- Interlude : Charles A. Lindbergh and Atlantic flight, 1927-1929
- The golden age, I : the Lindbergh progeny, 1927-1939
- The golden age, II : the air-minded society, 1930-1939
- World War II and modern aviation, 1939-1945
- Aftermath : a-bombs, rockets, and space flight, 1945-1950.