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The story in 10 parts

1. Key idea 1 · free to read

   A Texas farm boy raised on scripture

   Robert Gordon is born late on Saturday night, June 9, 1906, in a farmhouse near Texarkana. His mother, Amelia, is a devoted student of the Bible and hopes he will become a preacher. His father, Calvin, grows cotton on the Red River bottomlands.

   A sermon describes believers rising through clouds to join the Lord, and Robert wonders for months what vehicle could carry them. He tells his mother he wants to meet the Lord in the air, and she says he will someday.

   Robert will not work the cotton fields, and his brother Ralph mocks him as Fool Bobbie. Instead he borrows his father's tools and builds a bicycle meant for water. His mother suggests thin cedar boards, and the wheels leak and sink him, so he fills them with automobile inner tubes and rides across the lake.

   His father calls his dream of a white-winged bird across the ocean pipe dreams, but his mother treats it as a promise. A mother's faith and a boy's stubbornness set the course of his life.

2. 2

   First love, jealousy, and the Garden of Love

   At school in Texarkana, Robert meets Walter Kennelworth, the son of a wealthy lumberman, and the two become lifelong friends.

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3. 3

   Ezekiel, cycles, and a bet on cotton

   Robert studies the Bible day and night and finds in Ezekiel what he takes to be the plan for a future airplane.

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4. 4

   Lindbergh flies and the elopement is planned

   On May 21, 1927, Robert waits at a telegraph office until word comes that Charles Lindbergh has landed in Paris.

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5. 5

   Marie vanishes and the search begins

   At eight the next morning Robert goes to Marie's berth and finds it empty.

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6. 6

   The Boy Wizard of Wall Street

   In New York, Robert opens an office at 69 Wall Street.

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7. 7

   War in the air brings the nation to its knees

   In April 1930 Japan declares war on the United States, and Spain and Mexico join in.

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8. 8

   Love is the power that drives him

   The first theme is love as the greatest power.

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9. 9

   Prophecy, cycles, and a chosen nation

   The second theme is the belief that the future can be read.

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10. 10

    How the story is told

    The book is told as a chronicle with its own devices.

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