The Big Jump: Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race Leaders in Action “Dazzlingly witty” —CYNTHIA OZICKOtherwise Fables

“Dazzlingly witty” —CYNTHIA OZICKOtherwise Fables is the first complete collection of Oscar Mandel’s fiction

" — Library Journal"He has given us a fuller and clearer portrait of this extraordinary Lord of the South Plains than we've ever had before

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author of Natasha and Other Stories and The Betrayers“Like a Jewish Anne Lamott

author of This Is Where I Leave You“Behind every great man there’s a great woman

The Big Jump: Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race Leaders in Action “Dazzlingly witty” —CYNTHIA OZICKOtherwise FablesThe trans Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won the $25,000 Orteig Prize in 1927 for his history making solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Drawing on many previously overlooked sources, Bak offers a fresh