To learn more about this book that took over three decades of
writing and collecting, see the updates at
clipperculture.com.
To learn more about this book that took over three decades of
writing and collecting, see the updates at
clipperculture.com.
What reviewers say:
"This detailed examination of Pan Am's Clippers goes far beyond a recitation of the company's history. There is much to surprise readers." --Aviation History
"A must have book for the Clipper buff."
"A successful blend of historical fact....all lightly seasoned with humor."
The
China Clipper, Pan American Airways and Popular Culture shows
how Pan American Airways Clipper flying boats so captured public
imagination during the
1930s and 1940s that these flying icons permeated all of popular
culture. The book has
received rave reviews and is currently available through
Amazon.com,
mcfarlandpub.com, and through booksellers.
With over 300 pages and nearly 100 illustrations, many in
color, the book traces how Clippers symbolized most deeply held, and
often contradictory, changing beliefs and needs of the United States
in everything from children’s toys to music to motion pictures to
Motor City. To
understand the Clippers is to understand Depression and
post-Depression sensibility.
Clippers helped prepare the populace to fight a war, and
would lead the country out of war.
That same war, World War II, caused the demise of what many
people have termed “the most romantic ships ever built,” whose
routes took them to the most romantic places in the world.
Clippers continue to fly on in contemporary popular culture.
The book particularly emphasizes the role Clippers played in the education of children, from valentines (see book cover above) to textbooks to the games they played.
ISBN-10: 0786428201, ISBN-13: 978-0786428205 Published by McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers in 2006 351 pages, paperback.
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