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An American Saga: Juan Trippe and His Pan Am Empire

This is the story of the man who virtually single-handedly open up the world to commercial flight. Teeming with adventure, international intrigue, and financial manipulations, the book reveals how a sky-struck young man of immense ambition and vision took a single-engined seaplane carrying mail 90 miles from Key West to Havana and expanded the operation into the vast world-wide airline that at one time considered itself the "chosen instrunment" of the State Department abroard — and was so condidered by official Washington.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 529
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780394502236
  • Genres
  • aviation, business, history, biography
  • Release date
  • 1980