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The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
by Brendan I. Koerner
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New / Mint/As New / Mint
- ISBN 10
- 0307886107
- ISBN 13
- 9780307886101
- Seller
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About This Item
SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, MINT CONDITION/ COLLECTABLE
Casa Pacifica is selling a pristine copy of Brendan I. Koerner's The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking. This copy is in mint condition and looks as thought it has been untouched/unread! It is ready for a new reader or collector to enjoy it!
Signed by the author, Brendan I. Koerner, on the page next to the title page. Inscription reads: "Enjoy! Cheers, Brendan Koerner"
First edition print.
The true stroy of the longest-distance hijacking in American history.
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s 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, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom—a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history.
More than just an enthralling story about a spectacular crime and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath, The Skies Belong to Us is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.
Synopsis
BRENDAN I. KOERNER is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of Now the Hell Will Start , which was optioned by filmmaker Spike Lee. A former columnist for both The New York Times and Slate , he was named one of Columbia Journalism Review’s “Ten Young Writers on the Rise." Visit www.theskiesbelongto.us and follow him at @brendankoerner.
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- Bookseller
- Casa Pacifica
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0015
- Title
- The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
- Author
- Brendan I. Koerner
- Format/Binding
- Mint
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New / Mint
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0307886107
- ISBN 13
- 9780307886101
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013-06-18
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- History;
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Camarillo, California
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