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Search - Jet Set: The People, the Planes, the Glamour, and the Romance in Aviation's Glory Years

Jet Set The People the Planes the Glamour and the Romance in Aviation's Glory Years
Author: William Stadiem

In October, 1958, Pan American World Airways began making regularly scheduled flights between New York and Paris, courtesy of its newly minted wonder jet, the Boeing 707. Almost overnight, the moneyed celebrities of the era made Europe their playground. At the same time, the dream of international travel came true for thousands of ordinary Ameri... more »cans who longed to emulate the ?jet set? lifestyle.

Bestselling author and Vanity Fair contributor William Stadiem brings that Jet Age dream to life again in the first-ever book about the glamorous decade when Americans took to the skies in massive numbers as never before, with the rich and famous elbowing their way to the front of the line. Dishy anecdotes and finely rendered character sketches re-create the world of luxurious airplanes, exclusive destinations, and beautiful, wealthy trendsetters who turned transatlantic travel into an inalienable right. It was the age of Camelot and ?Come Fly with Me,? Grace Kelly at the Prince?s Palace in Monaco, and Mary Quant miniskirts on the streets of Swinging London. Men still wore hats, stewardesses showed plenty of leg, and the beach at St. Tropez was just a seven-hour flight away.

Jet Set reads like a who?s who of the fabulous and well connected, from the swashbuckling ?skycoons? who launched the jet fleet to the playboys, moguls, and financiers who kept it flying. Among the bold-faced names on the passenger manifest: Juan Trippe, the Yale-educated WASP with the Spanish-sounding name who parlayed his fraternity contacts into a tiny airmail route that became the world?s largest airline, Pan Am; couturier to the stars Oleg Cassini, the Kennedy administration?s ?Secretary of Style,? and his social climbing brother Igor, who became the most powerful gossip columnist in America?then lost it all in one of the scandals of the century; Temple Fielding, the high-rolling high priest of travel guides, and his budget-conscious rival Arthur Frommer; Conrad Hilton, the New Mexico cowboy who built the most powerful luxury hotel chain on earth; and Mary Wells Lawrence, the queen bee of Madison Avenue whose suggestive ads for Braniff and other airlines brought sex appeal to the skies.

Like a superfueled episode of Mad Men, Jet Set evokes a time long gone but still vibrant in American memory. This is a rollicking, sexy romp through the ring-a-ding glory years of air travel, when escape was the ultimate aphrodisiac and the smiles were as wide as the aisles.

ISBN-13: 9780345536952
ISBN-10: 0345536959
Publication Date: 6/3/2014
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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History >> Historical Study & Educational Resources >> Social History
History >> World
History >> Modern (16th-21st Centuries) >> 20th Century
Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Popular Culture

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