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Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Horgan received his Doctor of Philosophy in history in 1965 from Saint Louis University.
(From time to time, in the body of scholarly writing, ther...)
From time to time, in the body of scholarly writing, there emerges a work of commanding importance. Sometimes this paper will do more than satisfy a committee; sometimes it will go beyond a noble contribution to the sum of our knowledge and will also entertain the reader. Occasionally it will be couched in plain, easy-to-understand journalism, designed to captivate a person with a sense of being there. City of Flight is all of this. James J. Horgan transports his reader into history; into the basket of the Atlantic, as the 19th century balloon crashes into the timber of upstate New York, a thousand miles after its takeoff from St. Louis. Into the Red Devil, as Thomas Scott Baldwin flies his flimsy biplane between the Mississippi River and the arches of Eads Bridge. Onto the struts of the Sky Cycle, as a 15 year-old boy pedals his little gas-filled dirigible over Forest Park. Onto Art Hill, to cheer the flyover of America's newest hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, in his Spirit of St. Louis, in salute to the city which made it all possible. This is an epic set in the very cradle of aviation history--the City of St. Louis -- now, as it was in the beginning, the City of Flight.
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(From time to time, in the body of scholarly writing, ther...)
From time to time, in the body of scholarly writing, there emerges a work of commanding importance. Sometimes this paper will do more than satisfy a committee; sometimes it will go beyond a noble contribution to the sum of our knowledge and will also entertain the reader. Occasionally it will be couched in plain, easy-to-understand journalism, designed to captivate a person with a sense of being there. City of Flight is all of this. James J. Horgan transports his reader into history; into the basket of the Atlantic, as the 19th century balloon crashes into the timber of upstate New York, a thousand miles after its takeoff from St. Louis. Into the Red Devil, as Thomas Scott Baldwin flies his flimsy biplane between the Mississippi River and the arches of Eads Bridge. Onto the struts of the Sky Cycle, as a 15 year-old boy pedals his little gas-filled dirigible over Forest Park. Onto Art Hill, to cheer the flyover of America's newest hero, Charles A. Lindbergh, in his Spirit of St. Louis, in salute to the city which made it all possible. This is an epic set in the very cradle of aviation history--the City of St. Louis -- now, as it was in the beginning, the City of Flight.
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Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Horgan received his Doctor of Philosophy in history in 1965 from Saint Louis University.
He is listed as a Great Floridian. He was head of the history department at Saint Leo University from the 1960s through the mid 1990s until just before his death due to cancer. Horgan authored Pioneer College: The Centennial History of Saint Leo College, Saint Leo Abbey, and Holy Name Priory, chronicling the founding of Saint Leo in 1889 as a boys" preparatory school and its evolution over the following century to university status.
The Florida Historical Society"s Horgan Award is named in his honor.
Saint Leo University has a fund named in his honor, the Horgan Heritage Society. His "Great Floridian" plaque is installed at the Horgan Home in San Antonio, Florida near Saint Leo University.
(From time to time, in the body of scholarly writing, ther...)
(From time to time, in the body of scholarly writing, ther...)
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Horgan was a member of the Tampa chapter of Mensa.