Mary Lawlor

Fighter Pilot's Daughter

Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War

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Produktbeschreibung

Fighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing up in the Sixties and the Cold War details author and Professor Mary Lawlor's unconventional upbringing in Cold War America. A personal narrative braided with scholarly, retrospective reflections as to what that narrative means, Fighter Pilot's Daughter zooms in on a little girl with a childhood full of instability, frustration and unanswered questions such that her struggles in growth, her struggles, her yearnings and eventual successes exemplify those of her entire generation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9781442222007
• ISBN-10: 144222200X
• Artikelnr.: 38492435

Autorenporträt

By Mary Lawlor

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Pilot's House Chapter One: Learning to
Fly Chapter Two: Frannie's Days of Yore Chapter Three: The Coming of the
Cold War Chapter Four: Waiting Out Korea Chapter Five: Camping Out in Miami
and Topsail Chapter Six: School Pains and Home Wars Chapter Seven: Trouble
With the Army Chapter Eight: Strange Days in the Deep South Chapter Nine:
Coming of Age in California Chapter Ten: Cold War Catholicism, JFK, and
Cuba Chapter Eleven: The Discipline of Synchronized Swimming Chapter
Twelve: Saint Brigit/Bardot Chapter Thirteen: Back to the Swamps Chapter
Fourteen: Transition out of America Chapter Fifteen: Germany in the Sixties
Chapter Sixteen: At Play in the Fields of Empire Chapter Seventeen:
Following European Politics Chapter Eighteen: Making a Home in Paris
Chapter Nineteen: New Constellations Chapter Twenty: An Immoveable Feast
Chapter Twenty-One: Our Friends the Draft Resisters Chapter Twenty-Two:
Show Down With Frannie Chapter Twenty-Three: May '68 Chapter Twenty-Four:
Show Down With Jack Chapter Twenty-Five: Lost Days Chapter Twenty-Six:
Heidelberg Redux Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Beaker of the Warm South Chapter
Twenty-Eight: The End of the Cold War Notes