Carl Solberg
Auteur van Hubert Humphrey: A Biography
Werken van Carl Solberg
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Solberg, Carl Edward
- Geboortedatum
- 1940-04-04
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Opleiding
- University of Minnesota (BA | 1962)
Stanford University (MA | 1963)
Stanford University (PhD | 1967) - Organisaties
- American Historical Association
Latin American Studies Association
University of Washington
Leden
Besprekingen
Prijzen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 7
- Leden
- 102
- Populariteit
- #187,251
- Waardering
- 3.4
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 9
Beginning with the origins of flight and culminating in the 747, Conquest artfully combines business, social, and technical history. That distinguishes it from other books in this vein, like the tech-focused Turbulent Skies. Written for lay readers, Solberg brackets his history with reflections on how the romance of flight became – through persistent tinkering, reckless adventurism, war, and ambition– a perfectly ordinary form of transportation that shrunk the world, opening global vistas to the multitude.
In the beginning, there was the Post Office. Solberg’s first chapter, of course, is about the Wright brothers’ achievement and the rise of airplane manufacturing in the Great War. The story of commercial aviation picks up in earnest, however, after the war, when the US Postal Service began using the US Army airplanes created for the war to deliver mail.… (meer)