- Hijacking of aircraft, Case studies, United states, history, 1969-, Criminals, biography
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of sixties 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.
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Classical in form, earnest, epic and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Brendan I. Koerner
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 327
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, Hachette, Crown Publishers
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9782253093077
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