An American saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am empire

By Robert Daley and Robert Daley

Book Overview

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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007DZN1Q
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Dial
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Pan Am's China Clippers: The Starships Of The 1930's

This book details commercial aircraft development during a very critical period. Today we take transoceanic air travel for granted. But in the 1930's it was by no means certain that the tremendous technical challenges could be conquered. The first 20 years after World War I saw failure after failure in various attempts to design and build a transoceanic airplane that could carry practical quantities of passengers and freight...

Outstanding business epic

Fascinating tale of Juan Trippe and the creation of Panamerican Airways. The book reads like a thriller and should lend itself for Business Schools case history. A valuable document of the beginnings or commercial aviation told in fluid prose.

An absolute must read!!!

This book should be a classic. The author covers with great details and without losing the reader's interest, a true American saga. The book has it all, drama, machines, ego, power, betrayal, politics, wars, impossible dreams come true. Excellent book!!!