FDR and civil aviation
Subtitle: flying strong, flying free
By: Alan P. Dobson
Series: The world of the Roosevelts series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780230106666
Subjects: Politics and government; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Law and legislation; Political and social views; United States; HISTORY / Social History; Aeronautics and state; United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration; Commercial Aeronautics; History; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Description: "The aim of this book is to demonstrate that Franklin D. Roosevelt was one of the leading agents in both setting out and working to implement the principles that came to govern the international aviation system from 1945 down to the recent present and that much of its design was drawn from the experience of domestic US aviation reform in the 1930s. In contemporary parlance one might say that what is proposed here is the explanation of the genesis of a roadmap set out successively by Roosevelt's administrations for the achievement of a liberalized and lightly regulated international civil aviation market. Furthermore, a key contention of this research is that FDR himself played a much more important role in crafting policy than has previously been acknowledged"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Two Challenges : Roosevelt and Civil Aviation; title: Roosevelt's Inheritance; title: An Uneasy Start : Civil Aviation 1933-1937; title: The Passage of the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act; title: The Challenges of International Aviation 1933-1939; title: The Coming of War : Policies, Preparations and More Reorganization 1939-1941; title: Forming US International Aviation Policy December 1941-May 1943; title: Of Subordinates and the President; title: American Triumph, Roosevelt's Loss, and the "Burlesque" of Chicago; title: Roosevelt's Legacy.