Fighter Pilot's Daughter

Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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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. Memories of her early life—as the daughter of a Marine Corps and then Army father—reveal the personal costs of tensions that once gripped the entire world, and illustrate the ways in which bold foreign policy decisions shaped an entire generation of Americans, defining not just the ways they were raised, but who they would ultimately become. As a kid on the move she was constantly in search of something to hold on to, a longing that led her toward rebellion, to college in Paris, and to the kind of self-discovery only possible in the late 1960s. 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.From California to Georgia to Germany, Lawlor’s family was stationed in parts of the world that few are able to experience at so young an age, but being a child of military parents has never been easy. She neatly outlines the unique challenges an upbringing without roots presents someone struggling to come to terms with a world at war, and a home in constant turnover and turmoil. This book is for anyone seeking a finer awareness of the tolls that war takes not just on a nation, but on that nation’s sons and daughters, in whose hearts and minds deeper battles continue to rage long after the soldiers have come home.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-08-01
Mått154 x 228 x 25 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781442255944

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Pilot’s HouseChapter One: Learning to FlyChapter Two: Frannie’s Days of YoreChapter Three: The Coming of the Cold WarChapter Four: Waiting Out KoreaChapter Five: Camping Out in Miami and TopsailChapter Six: School Pains and Home WarsChapter Seven: Trouble With the ArmyChapter Eight: Strange Days in the Deep SouthChapter Nine: Coming of Age in CaliforniaChapter Ten: Cold War Catholicism, JFK, and CubaChapter Eleven: The Discipline of Synchronized SwimmingChapter Twelve: Saint Brigit/BardotChapter Thirteen: Back to the SwampsChapter Fourteen: Transition out of AmericaChapter Fifteen: Germany in the SixtiesChapter Sixteen: At Play in the Fields of Empire Chapter Seventeen: Following European PoliticsChapter Eighteen: Making a Home in ParisChapter Nineteen: New ConstellationsChapter Twenty: An Immoveable FeastChapter Twenty-One: Our Friends the Draft ResistersChapter Twenty-Two: Show Down With FrannieChapter Twenty-Three: May ’68Chapter Twenty-Four: Show Down With JackChapter Twenty-Five: Lost DaysChapter Twenty-Six: Heidelberg ReduxChapter Twenty-Seven: A Beaker of the Warm SouthChapter Twenty-Eight: The End of the Cold WarNotes

Mary Lawlor's memoir, Fighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War, is terrifically written. The experience of living in a military family is beautifully brought to life. This memoir shows the pressures on families in the sixties, the fears of the Cold War, and also the love that families had that helped them get through those times, with many ups and downs. It's a story that all of us who are old enough can relate to, whether we were involved or not. The book is so well written. Mary Lawlor shares a story that needs to be written, and she tells it very well.