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.
- Author
- Robert Daley
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 529
- Publisher
- Random House (NY)
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780394502236
- Genres
- aviation, business, history, biography
- Release date
- 1980
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