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    AN AMERICAN SAGA: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire
    AN AMERICAN SAGA: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire
    AN AMERICAN SAGA: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire
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    AN AMERICAN SAGA: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire

    By Robert Daley

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    Juan Trippe, the first and last aviation tycoon in history, learned to fly in the rickety machines of World War I, when the sky appealed only to daredevils, and his life expectancy could have been counted, probably, in days. He was as star struck as any of the other young aviators of the day, but he was also a Yale educated banker’s son who believed the world was crying out for air travel but didn’t yet know it, and he thought he saw a way to turn this risky game into a business. At 25 he began to found airlines, all of which failed, but in 1927 he took over floundering Pan American, which had only one route, 90 miles from Key West to Havana. Within eight years at great risk and against fantastic odds Pan Am had regularly scheduled service across the Pacific, and after that Trippe thrust his tentacles into all of Latin America, into Europe, Africa, Australia, China. He was a nerveless, sometimes vicious competitor who bought up or drove out of business anyone who got in his way—President Roosevelt once referred to him as a “Yale educated gangster”---until he had built Pan Am into the by far the mightiest airline that had existed up to that time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Daley
    Release dateJun 30, 2011
    ISBN9781466150751
    AN AMERICAN SAGA: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am Empire
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    Robert Daley

    Robert Daley is the author of eighteen novels and twelve non-fiction books. Born and brought up in New York, he graduated from Fordham University, did his military service in the Air Force and began writing stories, articles and books immediately afterward. He was a New York Times foreign correspondents for six years based in France but covering stories from Russia to Ireland to Tunisia, fifteen or more countries in all. Much later he served as an NYPD deputy commissioner, which explains why many of his books have played out against a police background. His work has been translated into fourteen languages, and six of his books have been filmed. He is married with three daughters. He and his French born wife divide their time between suburban New York and an apartment in Nice. France.

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    • 4/5
      Very good book. The growth of Pan Am makes for a good story and the author told it well. The vision displayed by Juan Trippe was impressive. The way he pushed for the new generation of aircraft was amazing. The author interviewed Trippe extensively, so the book is fairly slanted in his direction but not egregiously.

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