The Winged Gospel: America's Romance with Aviation, 1900-1950 - Hardcover

Corn, Joseph J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195033566 ISBN 13: 9780195033564

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1983

Synopsis

A record of the impact of aviation in America in its early years. It discusses such topics as the influence of aviation on religious preaching, the prominent role women played in aviation's development, its impact upon popular art, and the great effect aviation had on America's youth in these years.

About this title

From the Publisher

"Joseph Corn's lively and readable book . . . is well organized and written, thoroughly researched in primary documentation, and richly anecdotal and fascinating. Here are gathered the couples wedded in the air, the designers of automobiles that fly, the prophets of peace and prosperity—the true believers . . . in the millennium of flight."—Alex Roland, Isis

"Corn exploit[s] a wide assortment of books, periodicals, and cultural symbols and is adept at extrapolating evidence to support his thesis that aviation became something of a secular religion, promoting both prosperity and harmony. The author's enthusiasm for his topic is infectious."—Roger E. Bilstein, Journal of American History

About the Author

Joseph J. Corn is a senior lecturer in the history department at Stanford University. He is the co-author of Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future, available from Johns Hopkins.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195033566
• ISBN 13: 9780195033564
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224