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Empire of the Air: Juan Trippe and the Struggle for World Airways (Literature and history of aviation)

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In this well written book taken from a series of 5 articles originally written for the Saturday Evening Post in 1943. You will find a short and concise history of Pan Am. It does include a very small history of Juan Trippe before Pan AM but not really anything like a short bio. This book covers Juan's involvement in Pan Am. Most of what is written about is how Pan Am was founded and increased its world markets through the shipping of mail in which Pan Am won most of the government contracts. This allowed them to make money when air travel was just in the begining stages. It also tells how closely the airlines worked with the government and the CAB in order to keep a strangle hold on the markets allowing it to have a virtual monopoly with the help of the government. It is an interesting book which I think anyone would like to read but I believe the book to be a little pricey and that should be taken into consideration.