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Title: The Winged Gospel: America's Romance With Aviation by Joseph J. Corn ISBN: 0-8018-6962-5 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95

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Summary: Good explanation of America's facination with early aviation
Comment: Joseph Corn's "The Winged Gospel" is a loving study of why many Americans were fascinated with aviation during the first half of the twentieth century. Corn explores the religous flavor which became associated with the airplane, and how a career in aviation became regarded as a mystical, "higher calling." Corn also examines how the bombing raids of World War II, especially on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, shattered that optimism. Corn devotes separate chapters to such phenomenon as the unique freedoms discovered by women aviators, the belief of "an airplane in every garage," and the boundless optimism in the future brought about by the airplane held by people in the grip of a crippling depression. Although his prose tends to be a little dry at times, Corn manages to coherently present a time when people embraced technology, and placed all of their hopes in its "miracles." As Corn ably proves, that time is something Americans will probably never see again.

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