Birdmen & Balance with Lawrence Goldstone
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“Glenn Curtiss was more important to modern flight than the Wright brothers,” says this week's guest, Lawrence Goldstone, the award-winning author (or co-author with his wife Nancy) of more than twenty books.
We talk about Glenn Curtiss, the Wrights brothers and early flight; Lefty Gomez stopping the 1937 World Series to watch a plane, and the daredevil Lincoln Beachey. We also talk about what it means to have a healthy disrespect for authority; law, language, and ideals; justice, and why "wisdom is the willingness to look at things differently.”
Of his books, here we focus mainly on this transportation trilogy--
Birdmen: The Wrights Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies.
Drive! Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age
Going-Deep John Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine.
Find his other books on his website.
We also mention The Drunkard's Walk.
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