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The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys Who Fought the Great War and Invented American Airpower Hardcover - 2006

by Wortman, Marc

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New York: Public Affairs, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 313, illus., map, notes, index. The story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockefeller, a Taft, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, a son of J. P. Morgan's leading partner. Most were students at Yale University in 1916. They were determined to be first into the conflict, leading the way ahead of America's declaration that it would join the Great War in Europe.
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AS FREDERICK TRUBEE DAVISON'S SOPHOMORE YEAR DREW TO A CLOSE, he had begun to bask in the sunshine of Yale.

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Marc Wortman is an award-winning freelance writer whose work has appeared in numerous national magazines. He was a senior editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine, where the story of the Yale unit was originally published in the September/October 2003 issue. He also taught literature and writing at Princeton University and in a college program for inmates at Rahway State Prison in New Jersey. He lives in New Haven with his wife and daughter.

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