Fighter Pilot''s Daughter - Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War

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.

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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

Info autore

By Mary Lawlor

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mary Lawlor, Lawlor Mary
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 22.08.2013
• EAN: 9781442222007
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2200-7
• Pagine: 336
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Storia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Politica e sua amministrazione; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Women, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: historical, political and military