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From the Wright Brothers to the Astronauts

其他書名	The Memoirs of Benjamin D. Foulois
出版	McGraw-Hill, 1968
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qyoFAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"Benjamin D. Foulois was instrumental in making American aviation what it is today. From scouting out Pancho Villa's rebels in an open-cockpit Curtiss JN3 to cultivating Hermann Goering and Ernst Udet in post-World War I Berlin for espionage purposes, he was always ready to lay his life on the line. His amazing career spanned six decades. His close friends ranged from Wilbur Wright to Douglas MacArthur and Curtis LeMay. No man was ever more admired by the pilots who served under him; no man was ever more roundly criticized by Washington bureaucrats. From the day he enlisted as a buck private in his brother's name to serve in the Spanish-American War, General "Benny" Foulois was always where the battles were. Forced into retirement by political enemies in the late 1930s, he remained a close associate and valued advisor of the men who succeeded him in running the Air Corps. He became the champion of and spokesman for an enlightened government policy of total air--and space--preparedness. [This book presents] the history of powered flight in this country and the story of an authentic American hero."--Jacket.