[Rarebooks] FS: Eddie Rickenbacker's copy of AIR POWER FOR PEACE, 1945
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Tue Mar 27 09:46:02 EDT 2007
From our new Internet-only Catalogue which has just been posted on our
website: http://www.erols.com/agvent
It contains 57 AVIATION & SPACE items including a selection of books
from the library of leading World War I Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, as well
as books signed by Neil Armstrong, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh,
and Antoine Saint Exupery, and some interesting 19th century aviation
material.
WILSON, Eugene E. (RICKENBACKER, Eddie). AIR POWER FOR PEACE. New
York: McGraw-Hill (1945). First Edition. Decorated cloth. This copy
INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to famous pilot Eddie Rickenbacker
on the front endpaper: "To Eddie/In appreciation/of your vital
role/in U.S. Air Power/and as an expression/of warm friendship/and
high regard./Gene/Washington- April 1945." Medal of Honor-winning
World War I aviator Eddie Rickenbacker first gained fame in the
formative years of auto racing as a driver. Before owning and
operating the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, he participated in some of
the first 500-mile races held there finishing in tenth place in 1914.
Rickenbacker flew a total of 300 combat hours, reportedly more than
any other U.S. pilot in World War I, and his 26 victories as a pilot
constituted an American record that stood until World War II. After
the war, he started an unsuccessful automobile company, but his most
lasting business endeavor was his lifelong leadership of Eastern Air
Lines which Rickenbacker transformed from a small airline to a major
international transportation company. According to a typed note by
Rickenbacker's son laid into the book this title may have been the
origin of a speech his father gave many times in the late 1940s
titled "Air Power Is Peace Power," a slogan Curtis LeMay used on
billboards on SAC bases. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. $250.00
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