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Roscoe Turner: Aviation's Master Showman (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight)

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This book is a relatively well written story of one of the key figures of the golden age of aviation, Roscoe Turner. Through flying in races, movies, record breaking flights and attempting to stay financially aloft, this is a good overview of a life. The only issue I had with this book was that it never truly conveyed the character of Mr. Turner and seemed more like a chronology than a true biography.

Roscoe Turner was my grandfathers cousin so naturally I have been very interested in this book. It has a lot of family pictures in it and I use it for genealogy as well as history. I have read the entire book and found it very interesting and well written with a ton of pictures. I would recomend this book and have purchased quite a few of them for gifts.
If you don't like to read, the pictures are worth the purchase. I like to read but even I had to put it down and come back to it. Not a book you can read at one sitting unless you are a speed reader and that would come in handy for this book but I wanted to soak in the words so I took my time reading.