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100 1  Goldstone, Lawrence,|d1947- 
245 10 Birdmen :|bthe Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the 
       battle to control the skies /|cLawrence Goldstone. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBallantine Books,|c[2014] 
300    xiv, 428 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-404) and 
       index. 
505 0  Genius extinguished -- Fulcrum -- Highway in the sky -- 
       Men in the dunes -- To Kitty Hawk -- Sophomore slump -- 
       Gas bag -- Where no man had gone before -- Patent 
       pioneering -- The vagaries of the marketplace -- The 
       inexorable progression of knowledge -- The first Brazilian
       aloft -- Langley's legacy -- Closing fast -- Vindication -
       - Orville and Selfridge -- The toast of France -- Trading 
       punches -- Best-laid plans -- Bowing to the inevitable -- 
       Team sports -- Mavericks -- Faster, steeper, higher -- War
       birds -- Owning the sky -- The wages of righteousness -- 
       The romance of death -- A reluctant steward -- A wisp of 
       victory -- The grip of the spotlight -- The death of 
       innocence. 
520    "The feud between this nation's great air pioneers, the 
       Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, was a collision of 
       unyielding and profoundly American personalities. On one 
       side, a pair of tenacious siblings who together had solved
       the centuries-old riddle of powered, heavier-than-air 
       flight. On the other, an audacious motorcycle racer whose 
       innovative aircraft became synonymous in the public mind 
       with death-defying stunts. For more than a decade, they 
       battled each other in court, at air shows, and in the 
       newspapers. The outcome of this contest of wills would 
       shape the course of aviation history--and take a fearsome 
       toll on the men involved. Birdmen sets the engrossing 
       story of the Wrights' war with Curtiss against the 
       thrilling backdrop of the early years of manned flight, 
       and is rich with period detail and larger-than-life 
       personalities: Thomas Scott Baldwin, or "Cap't Tom" as he 
       styled himself, who invented the parachute and almost 
       convinced the world that balloons were the future of 
       aviation; John Moisant, the dapper daredevil who took to 
       the skies after three failed attempts to overthrow the 
       government of El Salvador, then quickly emerged as a 
       celebrity flier; and Harriet Quimby, the statuesque silent
       -film beauty who became the first woman to fly across the 
       English Channel. And then there is Lincoln Beachey, 
       perhaps the greatest aviator who ever lived, who dazzled 
       crowds with an array of trademark twists and dives--and 
       best embodied the romance with death that fueled so many 
       of aviation's earliest heroes. A dramatic story of 
       unimaginable bravery in the air and brutal competition on 
       the ground, Birdmen is at once a thrill ride through 
       flight's wild early years and a surprising look at the 
       personal clash that fueled America's race to the skies" --
       |cfrom publisher's web site. 
600 10 Wright, Wilbur,|d1867-1912. 
600 10 Wright, Orville,|d1871-1948. 
600 10 Curtiss, Glenn Hammond,|d1878-1930. 
650  0 Aeronautics|zUnited States|xHistory. 
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