Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare: The Story of the American Aerospace Industry

by Wayne Biddle

Book Overview

A 1991 "New York Times" Notable Book of the YearThis panoramic history of the rise of the American aerospace industry traces the careers of the men whose names became synonymous with today's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805025146
• ISBN13: 9780805025149
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Great new edition

This comprehensive, non-heroworshipping history of the American aviation/weapons business unfortunately slipped out of print for a few years, but is now available again from Johns Hopkins with a new preface. It is still unparalleled for telling the story of a pivotal industry without being stupified either by government secrecy or corporate obfuscation. A must-read for anyone interested in "defense" issues.

A valuable antidote to hagiographic histories of aviation

A New York Times "Notable Book of the Year" in 1991, "Barons of the Sky" was lauded as "timely history of Americans living in an era of ninety-five-billion-dollar contracts for fighter planes" by Thomas P. Hughes in the New York Times Book Review and "thoroughly researched and admirably written" by Gregg Herken in the Washington Post Book World. It is a valuable antidote to myriad hagiographic accounts of the development of American aviation.