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000693781 1001_ $$aKoerner, Brendan I.
000693781 24514 $$aThe skies belong to us :$$blove and terror in the golden age of hijacking /$$cBrendan I. Koerner.
000693781 250__ $$aFirst edition.
000693781 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bCrown Publishers,$$c[2013]
000693781 300__ $$a318 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c25 cm
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000693781 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia
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000693781 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-308) and index.
000693781 5050_ $$a"Keep smiling" -- Coos Bay -- "I don't want to be an American anymore" -- Sweet black angel -- "I'm here and I exist -- Operation Sisyphus -- "There are Weathermen among you" -- "Can't you get a chopper?" -- "It's all a lie" -- The choice -- "We are going to be friends" -- "My only bomb is my human heart" -- "How do you resign from a revolution?" -- "The Olympics wasn't anything" -- "Monsieur Lecanuet, anyone can steal-- " -- Omega -- Tweety Bird -- Erased.
000693781 520__ $$aIn an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of Sixties idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. The longest-distance hijacking in American history took place in 1972 when a shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl, Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow, commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague war protest. Through a combination of savvy and dumb luck, the couple managed to flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom, a feat that made them notorious around the globe. Journalist Brendan I. Koerner spent four years chronicling this madcap tale, which involves a cast of characters ranging from exiled Black Panthers to African despots to French movie stars.--From publisher description.
000693781 650_0 $$aHijacking of aircraft$$zUnited States$$vCase studies.
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