Fighter Pilot's Daughter by Mary Lawlor - 9781442255944

Fighter Pilot's DaughterGrowing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War\nAuthor(s): Mary Lawlor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781442255944, 978-1442255944\nSynopsis\nFighter Pilot's Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War details author and Professor Mary Lawlors unconventional upbringing in Cold War America. Memories of her early lifeas the daughter of a Marine Corps and then Army fatherreveal 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. \n\nA personal narrative braided with scho.