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Selling Air Power Williams Ford University
In Selling Air Power, Steve Call provides the introductory comprehensive study of the attempts of post-war air power advocates to harness general culture in help of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s, hardly a month went by without at least one blatantly pro–air power article appearing in standard interest magazines.
About the Author STEVE CALL, associate professor of history at Broome Community College in Binghamton, New York, is author of Danger Close: Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq (Texas A&M University Press, 2007). Call’s Ph.D. in military history is from Ohio State University. He resides in Sayre, Pennsylvania.
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 Excellent occupation but half the story
By Barrett Tillman
If I could, I’d rate this book 2 1/2 stars, but as an author I’m inclined to give other writers the gain of “rounding up.” It’s exceedingly easy to criticize a book, in particular if you’ve never written one.
The short version: Steve Call does a thorough, goal to be attained occupation of talking about half of his subject: how military aviation was sensed in the popular culture after 1945.
He omits the United States Navy.
The only way you’d know there even was a US Navy is Call’s reference to the service in the postwar “revolt of the admirals” versus the B-36. Having read the book cover to cover, I found no comprehensible statement for the wide omission, though one infers that by “military” the author chose to define the term as “non-naval.” That’s regrettable. The long and in general distinguished list of naval aviation movies and novels includes 1930′s “Hell Divers”; prewar attempts such as “Flight Command” and “Dive Bomber”; the wartime documentary “The Fighting Lady”, 1949′s “Task Force” (still the best film on the subject) and of course the book and movie combos “Bridges of Toko-Ri” and “Flight of the Intruder”; plus the highly successful recruiting film, “Top Gun.”
The other queer omission is television. Call mentions the 1950s CBS documentary series “Air Power” but makes no mention of any TV dramas such as “Steve Canyon” or “Call to Glory.” Other than “Steve Canyon” he ignores the enormously popular comic strips “Terry and the Pirates” and “Smilin’ Jack”. For those of us old sufficient to have owned an primary hula hoop, there was likewise the long-running “Buzz Sawyer” naval aviation comic strip. All were portion of the pop culture dealing with aviation yet all are omitted.
Now for the good stuff: Call does an splendid occupation of tracking the attempts of military and civilian exponents of air power from before WW II through the 1960s. His descriptions of the behind-the-scenes relationships amidst respective media and the Air Force are thoughtfully conceived and extraordinarily thorough. He cites dozens of articles in major magazines such as “Readers Digest”, “Colliers”, “Newsweek” and “The Saturday Evening Post” written to keep the service before the public. He reminds us of the enormous influence of radio celebrity Arthur Godfrey (who also had a TV show) as one of airpower’s most powerful spokesmen. Call’s description of Hollywood’s evolving (i.e., declining) help of the Air Force is particularly well done, though he mistakenly names Jimmy Stewart as instigator of the 1955 hit “Strategic Air Command” when in fact it was veteran screenwriter Beirne Lay. Call in the right way identifies the most significant WW II bombing movies as “Twelve O’Clock High” and “Command Decision” before turning to doomsday features such as “Fail Safe” and “Dr. Strangelove”, and the farcical “Catch 22.”
The book holds few faults and in general is well written, even though like so a lot of authors, Mr. Call relies excessively upon definitive articles such as “this” or “these” in referring back to at times uncertain subjects. Overall, it’s a solid, utile study flawed by omission of the Navy, TV, and newspapers.
Note to A&M Press: had the subtitle been changed to “The US Air Force and American Popular Culture” this would have been a 4-star review.
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