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 sk
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 worldThis 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.
A lengthy work chronicalling the history of Pan Am and the career of Juan Trippe. A worthwhile read.
Juan must have stepped on too many proud U.S. Senators' toes, since they offered no help when Pan American World Airways was in decline.