Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts, by Roger Bilstein, paperback (very good condition)
 
Roger E. Bilstein's Flight in America has won acclaim as the foremost history of one of the twentieth century's landmark achievements―human flight.  Splendidly written, "Flight in America" charts the transformation by the airplane of virtually every aspect of American life, tracing aviation from the earliest discoveries of the airplane's possibilities for entertainment, commerce, and war to the fantasies of science fiction and the realities of jet and space travel.