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Brendan I. Koerner
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THE SKIES BELONG TO US in Washington D.C.
Author appearance, June 21, 2013 07:00PM
Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C., 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC, US
http://www.politics-prose.com/
Author appearance, June 21, 2013 07:00PM
Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C., 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC, US
http://www.politics-prose.com/
My first reading for THE SKIES BELONG TO US, at one of Washington D.C.'s foremos...more
THE SKIES BELONG TO US in New York City
Author appearance, June 24, 2013 07:00PM
The Half King in NYC, 505 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY, US
http://www.thehalfking.com/readings/
Author appearance, June 24, 2013 07:00PM
The Half King in NYC, 505 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY, US
http://www.thehalfking.com/readings/
My one NYC reading will be at the venerable Half King, a bar where I've spent ma...more
THE SKIES BELONG TO US in Los Angeles
Author appearance, July 11, 2013 07:00PM
Book Soup on the Sunset Strip, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA, US
http://www.booksoup.com/author-events
Author appearance, July 11, 2013 07:00PM
Book Soup on the Sunset Strip, 8818 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA, US
http://www.booksoup.com/author-events
I return to my native Los Angeles for a reading at Book Soup, where my dad used...more
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I burned through this book in two or three sittings. Brendan is a friend, but I'd love it even if I didn't know him. "The Skies" works on a couple of levels, as both a history of a forgotten phenomenon (skyjacking in '60s and '70s America) and a m...
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Today, it’s hard to imagine breezing into an airport mere minutes before your flight takes off; no metal detectors, no full body scanners…shoes on. In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, airport security was shockingly nonexistent and customers were...
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Darcia Helle's review of The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking:
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This book fascinated me from beginning to end. While the focus is on Roger Holder's convoluted and oddly successful plan to skyjack a plane with his lover Cathy Kerkow, the story told is broad and full of wacky, real life characters. As the US stu...
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"Carol wrote: "This is on my "Must Read" List. I had a friend when I was in college who was skyjacked in the Beirut airport. Won't forget that!"
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“My son, from whence this madness, this neglect
Of my commands, and those whom I protect?
Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind
Whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid
Of my commands, and those whom I protect?
Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind
Whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid
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