Airlines & Air Mail

Conventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America's commercial airline industry and contends that...
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Author: F. Robert Van Der Linden
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Language: English
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Airlines & Air Mail by Van Der Linden, F. Robert

Airlines & Air Mail

$161.38

Airlines & Air Mail

$161.38
Author: F. Robert Van Der Linden
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Conventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America's commercial airline industry and contends that it was not until Roosevelt's Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 that federal airline regulation began. In Airlines and Air Mail, F. Robert van der Linden persuasively argues that Progressive republican policies of Herbert Hoover actually fostered the growth of American commercial aviation. Air mail contracts provided a critical indirect subsidy and a solid financial foundation for this nascent industry. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown used these contracts as a carrot and a stick to ensure that the industry developed in the public interest while guaranteeing the survival of the pioneering companies. Bureaucrats, entrepreneurs, and politicians of all stripes are thoughtfully portrayed in this thorough chronicle of one of America's most resounding successes, the commercial aviation industry.



Author: F. Robert Van Der Linden
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 04/26/2002
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.40w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780813122199


Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2002 pg. 521

About the Author

F. Robert van der Linden, curator of air transportation at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, is the author of The Boeing 247: The First Modern Airliner.




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