Roscoe Turner: Aviation's Master Showman (Smithsonian History of Aviation Series) - Softcover

Glines, Carroll V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560987987 ISBN 13: 9781560987987

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 1999

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Roscoe Turner could only have happened in America. His career was a classic rags-to-riches epic, and one can only wonder how many youngsters were influenced by his example during the dark days of the Depression. With this book, Carroll Glines makes that sort of influence possible all over again. Air & Space Smithsonian An incisive look at one of the most colorful figures in aviation history... Roscoe Turner: Aviation's Master Showman is a great book, as multidimensional as Turner was himself. Aviation History As one of America's premier aviation historians, Carroll Glines has given us a delightful and thoroughly researched biography of one of our audacious aerial risk takers. Jacksonville Times-Union This scrupulously researched work by retired Air Force colonel Glines resurrects an aerial showman who takes his rightful place in the pantheon of 20th-century daredevils. Publishers Weekly The 1920s and '30s were the Golden Age of aviation in this country... No one personified that era better than Roscoe Turner. With his waxed mustache, polished boots, riding breeches, powder blue military jacket, diamond-studded aviator wings, and pet lion Gilmore, Turner (1895-1970) was just the kind of larger-than-life character aviation needed to capture the public's imaginiation. Richmond Times-Dispatch

About the Author:

A retired Air Force colonel, Carroll V. Glines is curator of the Doolittle Military Aviation Library at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of thirty-one books, including Bernt Balchen: Polar Aviator (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1560987987
• ISBN 13: 9781560987987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340