Robert Daley
An American saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am empire
Hardcover
(Random House March 15, 1980)
, 1st edition
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.
- ISBN
- 039450223X / 9780394502236
- Pages
- 529
- Weight
- 32.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 9.3 x 6.1
in.