The book, The Winged Gospel: America’s Romance With Aviation, 1900-1950 reviews the golden era of aviation in the United States, which spanned the first 50 years of the 20th century.  “The Winged Gospel: America’s Romance With Aviation, 1900-1950” reconstructs the United State’s first era of manned flight and highlights the famous and lesser-known aviators who became the nation’s new action heroes.  The cast of heroes includes: 1) Charles Lindbergh, whose solo-flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 became one of aviation’s crowning achievements during the 1920s; 2) Amelia Earhart one of the many women “aces” who proved that flying was a field open to anyone and 3) Cal Rodgers, who made the first transcontinental flight, surviving in the process a dozen crashes, a broken arm and collarbone, as well as many wounds caused by an exploded engine. Overall, “The Winged Gospel: America’s Romance With Aviation, 1900-1950”, provides a vivid picture of the United States in the first half of the 20th century and in so doing highlights its aspirations and concerns as expressed in the wild exuberance brought about as a response to the new technology of manned flight.  The major sections of  “The Winged Gospel: America’s Romance With Aviation, 1900-1950” are as follows: 1) Chapter I - The Moment Of Miracle”: Americans Greet The Airplane; 2) Chapter II – “A New Sign Of The Heavens”: The Prophetic Creed Of Flight; 3) Chapter III – “Let Your Airmindedness Be Shown Forth Among Men”: Evangelizing For Aviation; 4) Chapter IV – Making Flying “Thinkable”: Women Pilots And The Selling Of Aviation; 5) Chapter V – “An Airplane In Every Garage?” The Gospel’s Most Pervasive Promise; 6) Chapter VI – Adults And The “Winged Superchildren Of Tomorrow”; 7) Chapter VII – Epilogue; 8) Notes and 9) Index.  In addition to an informative narrative, “The Winged Gospel: America’s Romance With Aviation, 1900-1950” includes approximately 46 black and white illustrations and photographs.  This book is 177 pages and is in excellent condition.  The author is Joseph J. Corn with Wendell Minor (jacket painting and design).  Edition published in 1983.