Drawing on his knowledge of the technical aspects of civil aviation, Alan P. Dobson's history of the international aviation system, from 1945 to the present day, stresses the hitherto unacknowledged role Franklin D. Roosevelt played in implementing the principles that came to govern the entire global aviation system.

Autorentext
ALAN DOBSON ****is Professor of Politics at the University of Dundee, UK.

Inhalt
Two Challenges:Roosevelt and Civil Aviation Roosevelt's Inheritance An Uneasy Start: Civil Aviation 1933-1937 The Passage of the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act The Challenges of International Aviation 1933-1939 The Coming of War: Policies, Preparations and More Reorganization 1939-1941 Forming US International Aviation Policy December 1941 May 1943 Of Subordinates and the President American Triumph, Roosevelt's Loss and the 'Burlesque' of Chicago Roosevelt's Legacy