leading agents in setting out to implement the principles that came to govern the international aviation system from 1945 onward. He ensured America’s supremacy in civil aviation for over half a century by carrying out domestic reforms and by becoming a key architect of the post-war international civil aviation regime. Demonstrating that FDR himself played a much more important role in crafting policy than has been previously acknowledged, this book offers long-overdue insights into Roosevelt and civil aviation.

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