Hardbound. History of Air Racing between 1928 and 1939. 487 pages.

In the decades leading up to World War II, air races were often the proving grounds for radical new aviation principles and designs. The people and machines of

"Readers are brought from commercial air transport's very beginnings to the zenith of what is fondly referred to as flying in the "Golden Age of Air Transport,"

At the beginning of the twentieth century the skies presented a new frontier, one that attracted daredevils, businessmen, politicians, and engineers enticed by