The airplane in American culture / edited by Dominick A. Pisano.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pisano, Dominick, 1943-
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2003], ©2003.
Subjects:
Aeronautics > United States.
Airplanes > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
Physical Description:vi, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • New directions in the history of aviation / Dominick A. Pisano
  • The airplane and the American experience / Roger Bilstein
  • The greatest show not on earth : the confrontation between utility and entertainment in aviation / Dominick A. Pisano
  • The man nobody knows : Charles A. Lindbergh and the culture of celebrity / Charles L. Ponce de Leon
  • "Great shadow in the sky" : the airplane in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 and the development of African American visions of aviation, 1921-1926 / Jill D. Snider
  • "Who says it's a man's world?" : women's work and travel in the first decades of flight / Suzanne L. Kolm
  • Experiment in the cockpit : the women airforce service pilots of World War II / Katherine Sharp Landdeck
  • "The surly bonds of earth" : images of the landscape in the work of some aviator/authors, 1910-1969 / Tom D. Crouch
  • The airplane and American literature / Lawrence Goldstein
  • "Our future is in the air" : aviation and American art / Gerald Silk
  • Transforming technology in the Army Air Corps, 1920-1940 : technology, politics, and culture for strategic bombing / Timothy Moy
  • "Peace is our profession" : the bombers take over / H. Bruce Franklin
  • Stick and rudder university : training and the creation of the flight suit officer / John Darrell Sherwood.