Jack El-Hai’s books include Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places (Minnesota, 2000) and The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. He has written about business and history for the Atlantic, Scientific American Mind, History Channel Magazine, American Heritage, and Utne Reader.
Jack El-Hai’s books include Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places (Minnesota, 2000) and The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. He has written about business and history for the Atlantic, Scientific American Mind, History Channel Magazine, American Heritage, and Utne Reader.
Jack El-Hai’s books include Lost Minnesota: Stories of Vanished Places (Minnesota, 2000) and The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. He has written about business and history for the Atlantic, Scientific American Mind, History Channel Magazine, American Heritage, and Utne Reader.
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Contents Preface 1. The Romance of Aviation, the Perils of a BusinessBrittin’s Brains Airmail FolliesPioneering PassengersLindbergh Brings His Lucky Name 2. No Runways, No ProblemThe Mystique of PilotsBrittin’s “Right-Hand Man” The Tragedy of SpeedThe Marco Polo of AviationBalancing a Tray on a Turbulent Flight 3. Pulled into the Modern AgeSecurity before TerrorismIsland of Quonset HutsEscape from ShanghaiClothing That Wears like Iron 4. Lithe Man with a Bright SmileA New Theater of WarThe Pudgy Plane That CouldThe Tale of a SwordStormy Weather 5. Adventures in Scale and EfficiencyHot Meals and Cold MartinisThe Red TailTake Me to Cuba 6. Planes Longer Than the Flight at Kitty HawkThe Air PirateA Rattler of a CEOAirlifting Propeller Shafts and Silkworms 7. One Whammy after AnotherChance Favors the Prepared MindThe Wondrous Flight of Herman the Goose“I Will Always Remember That You Were the First” The End of LivesSoaring Eagle 8. The Decade That Lasted a LifetimeLike It or Not, the Face of Northwest Deaths in the FamilyBreaking to a Halt 9. Broke and Vanishing FastMechanical Derring-doThe Underwear BomberLights Out The History of Northwest Airlines Acknowledgments and SourcesIllustration CreditsIndex
Contents Preface 1. The Romance of Aviation, the Perils of a BusinessBrittin’s Brains Airmail FolliesPioneering PassengersLindbergh Brings His Lucky Name 2. No Runways, No ProblemThe Mystique of PilotsBrittin’s “Right-Hand Man” The Tragedy of SpeedThe Marco Polo of AviationBalancing a Tray on a Turbulent Flight 3. Pulled into the Modern AgeSecurity before TerrorismIsland of Quonset HutsEscape from ShanghaiClothing That Wears like Iron 4. Lithe Man with a Bright SmileA New Theater of WarThe Pudgy Plane That CouldThe Tale of a SwordStormy Weather 5. Adventures in Scale and EfficiencyHot Meals and Cold MartinisThe Red TailTake Me to Cuba 6. Planes Longer Than the Flight at Kitty HawkThe Air PirateA Rattler of a CEOAirlifting Propeller Shafts and Silkworms 7. One Whammy after AnotherChance Favors the Prepared MindThe Wondrous Flight of Herman the Goose“I Will Always Remember That You Were the First” The End of LivesSoaring Eagle 8. The Decade That Lasted a LifetimeLike It or Not, the Face of Northwest Deaths in the FamilyBreaking to a Halt 9. Broke and Vanishing FastMechanical Derring-doThe Underwear BomberLights Out The History of Northwest Airlines Acknowledgments and SourcesIllustration CreditsIndex
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