Will Rogers and Wiley Post

by Bryan B. Sterling and Frances N. Sterling

Book Overview

A dual biography of two famous men--one a beloved humorist and movie star, the other a heroic aviator--who died while flying to the North Pole in a small plane in 1935. By the authors of A Will Rogers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871317257
• ISBN13: 9780871317254
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: M. Evans and Company
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Very informative of the Will Rogers/Wiley Post accident

The authors have spent years researching Will Rogers. In this book, they provide insight into the friendship of Will Rogers and Wiley Post. A friendship which ended in their untimely death when their plane crashed in Alaska. The book tells the biography of Rogers and Post. Will Rogers has been writtten about and spoken of often. However, it is hard to find articles about Wiley Post. This was what I was seeking when I read the book, as Wiley and I descended from the same Post family. The book contained articles which I'd never heard before. Very well written and interesting.

FASCINATING INSIGHT INTO THE POST/ROGERS AIRCRASH IN BARROW

IF YOUR INTERESTS TEND TOWARD HISTORICAL FIGURES AND AVIATION, THIS IS AN INTENSELY INTERESTING BOOK. THIS IS NOT ANOTHER REHASH OF THE POST/ROGERS CRASH IN BARROW, BUT RATHER A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF ALL THE PERSONALITIES AND HISTORY BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE CRASH AS WELL AS HOW THEY ALL TIED INTO THE TRAGEDY. THE AUTHOR BUILDS A FASCINATING, FACTUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ACCIDENT AND A CONVINCING CASE AS TO WHY IT HAPPENED---AND IT'S NOT WHAT THE AUTHORITIES OF THE TIME WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE.