“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.
Future Motoring
Moving together into better futures while still respecting the past. Part of the Ecological Motoring Initiative. Published on Substack by Desirable Unknown.
Moving together into better futures while still respecting the past. Part of the Ecological Motoring Initiative. Published on Substack by Desirable Unknown.
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