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“David Hanna brings the exceptional yet all-too-human stories of Balbo, Eckener, and the Piccard’s vividly to life as they pursue their innovations and grapple with, avoid, or embrace the rise of fascism. David Hanna shows us how aviation was one way women reached for the stars.” – Lisa Greenwald, author of Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement Women's rights and lives were very much at the center of this search for equality on the ground as in the air. For some this meant fascism, for others a democratic future powered by flying machines. “ Broken Icarus weaves a seemingly incongruous story of Europe and America's aspirations for the future – on earth and in the heavens. It captures the spirit of a time that is both a cautionary tale and an inspiration for us all.” – Bertrand Piccard, chairman, Solar Impulse Foundation “ Broken Icarus is more than a book about science, industry, and aviation.
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But all those hopes, and all those dreams, turned to ashes as that benighted decade forged a very different and more sinister world.” – Alexander Rose, author of Empires of the Sky The World’s Fair in Chicago in the fateful year of 1933 marked the zenith of the Golden Age of aeronautics, the moment when it seemed that soon sleek flying-boats would rule the air, silvery squadrons of airships would girdle the world, and mankind would venture into space. “David Hanna’s splendid Broken Icarus is about a gleaming future that never happened. In Broken Icarus, author David Hanna tracks the inspiring trajectory of aviation leading up to and through the World’s Fair of 1933, as well as the field of flight’s more sinister ties to fascism domestic and abroad to present a unique history that is both riveting and revelatory. But for a moment in 1933, this all lay in a future that still seemed so promising. It was only later in the decade that the dark correlation between the rise of some of aviation’s superstars and the rise of fascism was to be revealed. This golden age of aviation and its high priests and priestesses portended to many the world over that a new age was dawning, an age when man would not only leave the ground behind, but also his uglier, less admirable heritage of war, poverty, corruption, and disease. And no persons at the Fair captured the public’s interest as much as the romantic figures associated with it: Italy’s internationally renowned chief of aeronautics, Italo Balbo German Zeppelin designer and captain, Doctor Hugo Eckener and the husband-and-wife aeronaut team of Swiss-born Jean Piccard and Chicago-born Jeannette Ridlon Piccard. No technology loomed larger at the Fair than aviation. The 1933 World’s Fair looked to the future, unabashedly, as one full of glowing promise. Roosevelt came to power, the city of Chicago staged what was, up to that time, the most forward-looking international exhibition in history. In the same year that both Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. But there was another story that embodied mankind in that decade. The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors dressing up old hatreds as new ideas. 2022 History Book Festival Official Selection.