Atlantic Fever
by Joe Jackson
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79%
Critic Reviews: 6
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Reader Ratings: 6
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Synopsis
A fast-paced, dynamic account of the race to cross the Atlantic, and the larger-than-life personalities of the aviators who captured the world's attentionFor five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. Joe Jackson’s Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American... more
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- All Critics: 6
- Positive: 5
- Negative: 1
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Boston.com | 27 May 2012
There are many such startling observations in “Atlantic Fever.” ...But Jackson’s narrative also bulges with overwrought prose and half-baked ideas.
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Kirkus Reviews | 15 Mar 2012
With stirring detail and perceptive insight about the pilots and the public, Jackson recaptures the tone and tenor of a frantic era’s national obsession.
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The Wall Street Journal | 25 May 2012
Even so, Mr. Jackson has acquitted himself well, by focusing not so much on Lindbergh as on the other airmen who tried to become the first solo flier across the Atlantic.
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Fredericksburg.com | 11 Jun 2012
Jackson evokes the frenzied excitement of 1920s aeronautic development, as the world awakened to the potential for long-distance and commercial flight.
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Cleveland.com | 27 May 2012
But Jackson succeeds with an engaging, suspenseful multiple narrative; solid research; and clever organization.
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Thinking in Christ | 1 Aug 2012
...this is a well written account of the first solo flight across the Atlantic, expansive in scope, and detailed in endeavor.
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