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Alfred W. Lawson (18691954) was a professional baseball player, inventor of the airliner, leader of a movement in the 1930s calling for the abolition of banks and interest, and founder of a utopian community, the so-called Des Moines University of Lawsonomy. This unusual institution, constantly embroiled in controversy in the 1940s and early 1950s, was dedicated not only to teaching Lawsons novel religious and scientific ideas but also to initiating a reform of human nature.
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Zig-zag-and-swirl : Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness
author
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Henry, Lyell D.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877453128
print isbn13
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9780877453123
ebook isbn13
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9781587291081
language
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English
subject
Lawson, Alfred W.--(Alfred William),--1869-1954, Aircraft industry--United States--Biography.
publication date
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1991
lcc
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TL540.L35H46 1991eb
ddc
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338.7/629133/34092
subject
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Lawson, Alfred W.--(Alfred William),--1869-1954, Aircraft industry--United States--Biography.
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Zig-Zag-and-Swirl
Alfred W. Lawson's Quest for Greatness
by Lyell D. Henry, Jr.
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1991 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1991
Design byvRichard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form orvby any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying andvrecording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
Frontispiece from AerialAgeWeekly, October 25, 1920
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data Henry, Lyell D., 1935 Zig-zag-and-swirl: Alfred W. Lawson's quest for greatness/by Lyell D. Henry, Jr.1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-312-8 (alk. paper) 1. Lawson, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 18691954. 2. Aircraft industryUnited StatesBiography. I. Title. TL540.L35H46 1991 338.7'629133'34092dc20 90-49730 [B] CIP
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CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Prologue: "Yes, Alfred William Lawson is God's great eternal gift to man"
xiii
Part One: Seedtime of a Self-made Man
1
1. Childhood Days
4
2. The Magic Man of Baseball
19
3. Born Again
39
Part Two: Fanning the Aeronautical Blaze
57
4. Aircraft Industry Builder
60
5. The Columbus of the Air
84
Part Three: From Aviator to Avatar
111
6. The Wizard of Reason and the Origin of Lawsonomy
114
7. The New Emancipator and His Perfect Economic Plan
128
8. The Man of Destiny and the Direct Credits Crusade
143
9. The First Knowledgian and the Upgrading of Humanity
183
Part Four: Utopia in Des Moines
201
10. Toward the Self-perpetuating Social Body
203
11. Alma Mater of the New Species
223
12. Collapsing Equaeverpoise
247
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Part Five: Lawsonian Legacies
279
13. The Last Knowledgians
282
14. Lawson and America
294
Notes and Sources
317
Index
333
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PREFACE
Alfred William Lawson has been much on my mind since I began the research for this book a full dozen years ago, but he has been in my mind far longer than that. My awareness of Lawson dates back to the 1940s and early 1950s, when I was growing up in Ames, Iowa, and Lawson was promulgating his unusual doctrine of "Lawsonomy" at the so-called Des Moines University of Lawsonomy (DMUL). So great was the uproar set off in Des Moines that word of it even reached my young ears thirty miles away in Ames.
On trips to Des Moines I also saw the mysterious "university" many times before it was razed in 1955, one year after Lawson's death. Sequestered behind high fence and locked gate, DMUL threw off dark hints of menace and nefarious goings-on or so it seemed to my impressionable adolescent mind. To this day, DMUL remains deeply incised in my memory, the only landmark I can still recall from that remote day before the boomers and the boosters had begun to transform the face of Des Moines.
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