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A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
     
     
    As ever, I am greatly indebted to a number of people and institutions for kindly assistance in the preparation of this book. In particular, I wish to thank Dr Alex M. Spencer, Dr Robert van der Linden and Dr Dominick Pisano of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC; my saintly editors, Marianne Velmans, Gerry Howard and Kristin Cochrane; my British agent, Carol Heaton; my esteemed friend Larry Finlay; and my extraordinarily bright and diligent copy editors, Nora Reicherd and Deborah Adams, who between them saved me from a thousand careless mistakes, though of course any that remain are my own.
    I am also most grateful to the ever helpful staff of the London Library; to Jon Purcell and his colleagues at the library of Durham University; to Bart Schmidt and colleagues at the Drake University Library in Des Moines; and to the staffs of the New York and Boston Public Libraries, the Lauinger Library at Georgetown University, and the library of the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC.
    For advice, encouragement, introductions and occasional meals, I am most grateful to Keith and Win Blackmore, Jonathan and Rina Fenby, Tim and Elizabeth Burt, John and Anne Galbraith, Chris Higgins and Jenifer White, Anne Heywood, Larry and Lucinda Scott, Patrick Janson-Smith, Patrick Gallagher, BradMartin, Oliver Payne, John and Jeri Flinn, Andrew and Alison Orme, Daniel and Erica Wiles, and Jon, Donna, Max and Daisy Davidson.
    Special thanks go also to my children Catherine and Sam Bryson for their generous and extremely affordable research assistance, and, above all and as always, to my dear, long-suffering, imperturbable, all-forgiving wife, Cynthia.

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    Ruth Snyder; Judd Gray; Babe Ruth kissing bat; Bath murders; Dwight W. Morrow; Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth; Van Sweringen Brothers; Al Capone; Charles Ponzi; Albert Fall and Edward Donehey; Texas Guinan; Philo T. Farnsworth; Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford: © Bettmann/CORBIS
     
    Charles Lindbergh with goggles: Courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum
     
    Charles Lindbergh and Myron Herrick: Time Life Pictures/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
     
    Charles Lindbergh at Croydon Aerodome: © TopFoto/The Image Works
     
    Charles Lindbergh in Washington DC: The Art Archive at Art Resource, New York
     
    Charles Lindbergh in New York City: Culver Pictures/The Art Archive at Art Resource, New York
     
    Charles