Broken Icarus : the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the golden age of aviation, and the rise of fascism
(2022)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
629.13/HANNA,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2022]
©2022
©2022
DESCRIPTION
xvi, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781633886766, 163388676X, 9781633886766
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
On the edge -- White City -- Black Shirt -- Zeppelin -- Up! -- Crash -- A single beam of starlight -- Rainbow City -- Chief Flying Eagle -- Waking from the dream -- Space Race -- City of Tomorrow -- Lost horizon -- Into the abyss
"In Broken Icarus, author David Hanna tracks the inspiring trajectory of aviation leading up to and through the World's Fair of 1933, as well as the field of flight's more sinister ties to fascism domestic and abroad to present a unique history that is both riveting and revelatory"--