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050		4	_aTL531 _b.J33 2013
082	0	4	_a629.13092 _223
100	1		_aJackson, Joe, _d1955- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAtlantic fever : _bLindbergh, his competitors, and the race to cross the Atlantic / _cJoe Jackson.
250			_aFirst Picador edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPicador, _c2013.
264		4	_c©2012
300			_ax, 525 pages, [8] pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 419-503) and index.
520			_aThis work is an account of the race to cross the Atlantic, and the larger-than-life personalities of the aviators who captured the world's attention. In 1919, a prize of $25,000 was offered to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic in either direction between France and America. Although it was one of the most coveted prizes in the world, it sat unclaimed (not without efforts) for eight long years, until the spring of 1927. It was then, during five incredibly tense weeks, that one of those magical windows in history opened, when there occurred a nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit that led so many contenders (from different parts of the world) to all suddenly be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time. This book is about the race; it is a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Richard Byrd, Noel Davis, Stanton Wooster, Clarence Chamberlin, Charles Levine, Rene Fonck, Charles Nungesser, and François Coli, all had equal weight in the race with Charles Lindbergh. Although the story starts in September 1926 with the crash of the first competitor, or even further back with the 1919 establishment of the prize, its heart is found in a short period, those five weeks from April 14 to May 21, 1927, when the world held its breath and the aviators met their separate fates in the air.
505	0		_aWinged messengers -- Phantom Travelers. Strange days ; The sure thing ; "This hero business" ; The explorer ; The most spectacular race ever held" ; The farm boy ; The cowboy ; The professionals ; The Lord of Distances. -- Five Weeks. Cruel days ; A little patch of green ; The maiden flight ; The white bird ; Curtiss Field ; The waiting game ; A bad case of nerves The chosen. -- Am I aLittle Nobody? . Passengers ; Four men in a fog ; "The clouds between must disappear" ; The way the wind sock blows ; "In the clouds." -- Transatlantic time line.
650		0	_aTransatlantic flights _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAeronautics _xCompetitions _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aAir pilots _vBiography.
600	1	0	_aLindbergh, Charles A. _q(Charles Augustus), _d1902-1974.
600	1	7	_aLindbergh, Charles A. _q(Charles Augustus), _d1902-1974. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00042025
650		7	_aAeronautics _xCompetitions. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00798314
650		7	_aAir pilots. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00802420
650		7	_aTransatlantic flights. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01154515
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast
655		7	_aBiography. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423686
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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