Read E-Book Online Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic

Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic - For five weeksfrom April 14 to May 21, 1927the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.Joe Jacksons Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Delving into the lives of the big-name competitorsthe polar explorer Richard Byrd, the French war hero Ren Fonck, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the races eventual winner, the enigmatic Charles Lindberghas well as those whose names have been forgotten by history (such as Bernt Balchen, Stanton Wooster, and Clarence Chamberlin), Jackson brings a completely fresh and original perspective to the race to conquer the Atlantic.Atlantic Fever opens for us one of those magical windows onto a moment when the nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit led so many contenders from different parts of the world to be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time.


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️Book Title : Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic
⚡Book Author : Joe Jackson
⚡Page : 525 pages
⚡Published May 8th 2012 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published May 1st 2012)


Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic

For five weeksfrom April 14 to May 21, 1927the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.Joe Jacksons Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Delving into the lives of the big-name competitorsthe polar explorer Richard Byrd, the French war hero Ren Fonck, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the races eventual winner, the enigmatic Charles Lindberghas well as those whose names have been forgotten by history (such as Bernt Balchen, Stanton Wooster, and Clarence Chamberlin), Jackson brings a completely fresh and original perspective to the race to conquer the Atlantic.Atlantic Fever opens for us one of those magical windows onto a moment when the nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit led so many contenders from different parts of the world to be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time.

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