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Just finished The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight by Winston Groom (the author of Forest Gump).
Most of Groom's recent books have been about military history (Shiloh, Vicksburg, Kearny's March), so it isn't surprising that he tended to emphasize their military activities, when their (Rickenbacker and Lindbergh's) greatest contributions were to the development of commercial aviation. Still, a good introduction to three pioneer aviators, although a bit of a whitewash of Lindbergh's political activities.
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