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ISBN Number: 9780801868283
Subtitle: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare: The Story of the American Aerospace Industry
Written by: Biddle, Wayne
Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
Location: Baltimore, MD
Subject: History
Subject: Airplanes, military
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Aeronautics, military
Subject: Military, Nuclear Warfare
Subject: Aerospace industries
Subject: Aircraft industry
Subject: Industries, General
Edition Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Volume: no. 2001-2822
Date of Publication: January 2002
Cover Type: Paperback
Written in: English
Illustrations: Yes
Number of Pages: 384
Book Size: 922x614x103 116
A 1991 New York Times Notable Book of the Year
This panoramic history of the rise of the American aerospace industry traces the careers of the men whose names became synonymous with today's military-industrial complex: Glenn Martin of Martin Marietta, Donald Douglas of McDonnell Douglas, Jack Northrop of Northrop, and Allan and Malcolm Loughead of Lockheed. Weaving together institutional history and individual biography, Wayne Biddle depicts the years of uncertainty after World War I, the bonanza of World War II, and the cutthroat postwar market. Unlike the automobile industry, the aircraft industry could never be sustained by the middle-class consumer economy, and these legendary founders had to depend on the federal government to keep their companies aloft. Barons of the Sky tells a thrilling story of obsessed men who, chasing their dreams of flight and success, created the modern aerospace weapons industry. Book News Annotation:
This history of the American aerospace industry combines
institutional history with individual biography, tracing the careers
of key figures such as Glenn Martin of Martin Marietta, Donald
Douglas of McDonnell Douglas, Jack Northrop of Northrop, and Allan
and Malcolm Loughhead of Lockheed. Biddle, who shared a Pulitzer
Prize for his reporting at the New York Times, is on the writing
faculty at the Johns Hopkins University. The original edition of this
reprint was published in 1991 by Simon & Schuster, New York.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
