The lofty wingspan of its title might suggest a lavishly-illustrated, 10,000-page exposition on planes, trains, automobiles and skyscrapers; it's to this book's credit that it isn't. Written by an ...

Robert Lucky’s mother was born in 1902 and died in 1998. She grew up on a farm in Virginia with no electricity, no radio, and no telephone. Yet she lived to see a man walk on the moon and the rise of ...