An American Saga: Juan Trippe and His Pan Am Empire

By: Robert Daley

Published January 1st 1980 by Random House (NY)

Category: Business

Pages: 529 pages

ISBN: 9780394502236

Description:
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.