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America, 1908 : the dawn of flight, the race to the Pole, the invention of the Model T, and the making of a modern nation / Jim Rasenberger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rasenberger, Jim.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technological innovations.
- History.
- United States--History--1901-1909.
- United States.
- Nineteen-o-eight, A.D.
- United States--Civilization--1865-1918.
- Civilization.
- Technological innovations--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
- Social conditions.
- Social change--United States--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- America, nineteen hundred eight
- America, nineteen-o-eight
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2007.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Leap Year 1
- Part I Dementia Americana
- Chapter 1 The Boy and the Machine 11
- Chapter 2 Thin Ice 31
- Chapter 3 Mysteries of the Unknown Parts 55
- Chapter 4 Middle Earth and the Night Riders 71
- Chapter 5 Ultima Thule 95
- Part II To Conquer Time and Space
- Chapter 6 The Man Bird 115
- Chapter 7 Heat 143
- Chapter 8 The Color Line 163
- Chapter 9 A Month of Late-Summer Days 185
- Part III The Golden Age
- Chapter 10 The Certainty of the Future 209
- Chapter 11 The Path of Deliverance and Safety 235
- Chapter 12 The Modern Definition of Life 253.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-290) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780743280778
- 0743280776
- OCLC:
- 156784781
- Online:
- Publisher description
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