Title: Zig-zag-and-swirl : Alfred W. Lawson's quest for greatness /
Authors: Henry, Lyell D., 1935-
Publisher: University of Iowa Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Lawson, Alfred W.; Aircraft industry United States Biography.
Contents: Seedtime of a self-made man -- Childhood days -- The magic man of baseball -- Born again -- Fanning the aeronautical blaze -- Aircraft industry builder -- The Columbus of the air -- From aviator to avatar -- The wizard of reason and the origin of Lawsonomy -- The new emancipator and his perfect economic plan -- The man of destiny and the direct credits crusade -- The first knowledgian and the upgrading of humanity -- Utopia in Des Moines -- Toward the self-perpetuating social body -- Alma mater of the new species -- Collapsing equaeverpoise -- Lawsonian legacies -- The last knowledgians -- Lawson and America.