Awards

• Commended for Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize 2014
• Nominated for Hagley Prize in Business History 2014
• Nominated for President's Book Award 2010
• Nominated for Sidney Edelstein Prize 2014

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Coupling penetrating research with a writer's flair, Van Vleck's Empire of the Air stands out among the long list of books on America's love affair with aviation. It is a history of planes and of flying, but also a history of why flight mattered to American policymakers eager to put their mark on the modern world.--Jeffrey A. Engel, Author Of cold War At 30,000 Feet

[A] superb account of the role of civil aviation in the forging of the American Century As much a meditation on the nature of power as a narrow story of aviation, the book anatomizes a potent brand of American ideology.--Duncan Bell Times Literary Supplement (05/30/2014)

Centered on the remarkable career of Juan Trippe, visionary and entrepreneur, Van Vleck's engaging account of the rise and rapid demise of Pan Am Airlines illuminates corporate influence on American foreign policy, the emergence of civilian aviation and its military ramifications, and the underlying dynamics of globalization in the latter half of the twentieth century. --Michael Adas, author of Dominance by Design

This is required reading on U.S. aviation.--R. Higham Choice (03/01/2014)

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Jenifer Van Vleck is Curator in the Division of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

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