Sky Rivals: Two Men. Two Planes. an Epic Race Around the World. by Penenberg, Adam L.

Sky Rivals: Two Men. Two Planes. An Epic Race Around the World. (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781938757198)

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Sky Rivals: Two Men. Two Planes. an Epic Race Around the World. by Penenberg, Adam L.

Sky Rivals: Two Men. Two Planes. An Epic Race Around the World.

$11.99
Sky Rivals: Two Men. Two Planes. an Epic Race Around the World. by Penenberg, Adam L.

Sky Rivals: Two Men. Two Planes. An Epic Race Around the World.

$11.99
Format: Paperback
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During the Golden Age of Aviation of the 1920s and 1930s, two great pilots stood above the rest: one-eyed Oklahoma farm boy Wiley Post, shy and awkward on the ground but a daredevil in the sky; and Jimmie Mattern, a handsome, charismatic Hollywood stunt pilot from Texas. The whole world followed their exploits through screaming newspaper headlines as they flew in planes made of little more than wood, canvas, and bailing wire, competing to be the first solo flier to circumnavigate the earth.

Only one would succeed, though the other would become more famous than he could have ever imagined. And both would change the face of aviation forever.

Author: Adam L. Penenberg
ISBN-10: 193875719X
ISBN-13: 9781938757198
Publisher: Wayzgoose Press
Language: English
Published: 02/05/2016
Pages: 214
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.45d
By Adam L. Penenberg
By Adam L. Penenberg
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Adam L. Penenberg is a journalism professor at New York University who has written for Fast Company, Forbes, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Wired, Slate, Playboy, and the Economist. A former senior editor at Forbes and a reporter for Forbes.com, Penenberg garnered national attention in 1998 for unmasking serial fabricator Stephen Glass of the New Republic. Penenberg's story was a watershed for online investigative journalism and portrayed in the film Shattered Glass (Steve Zahn plays Penenberg). Penenberg has published several books that have been optioned for film and serialized in the New York Times Magazine, Wired UK, and the Financial Times, and won a Deadline Club Award for feature reporting for his Fast Company story "Revenge of the Nerds," which looked at the future of movie-making. He has appeared on NBC's The Today Show as well as on CNN and all the major news networks, and has been quoted about media and technology in the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Wired News, Ad Age, Marketwatch, Politico, and many others.

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