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Fighter Pilot's Daughter
Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War
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2013
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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, My Cold War 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.
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Copyright Year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-2200-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-2201-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
323
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: The Pilot’s House No access Pages 1 - 22
1 Learning to Fly No access Pages 23 - 38
2 Frannie’s Days of Yore No access Pages 39 - 48
3 The Coming of the Cold War No access Pages 49 - 58
4 Waiting Out Korea No access Pages 59 - 74
5 Camping Out in Miami and Topsail No access Pages 75 - 92
6 School Pains and Home Wars No access Pages 93 - 100
7 Trouble with the Army No access Pages 101 - 108
8 Strange Days in the Deep South No access Pages 109 - 120
9 Coming of Age in California No access Pages 121 - 134
10 Cold War Catholicism, JFK, and Cuba No access Pages 135 - 142
11 The Discipline of Synchronized Swimming No access Pages 143 - 148
12 Saint Brigit/Bardot No access Pages 149 - 152
13 Back to the Swamps No access Pages 153 - 164
14 Transition Out of America No access Pages 165 - 176
15 Germany in the 1960s No access Pages 177 - 186
16 At Play in the Fields of Empire No access Pages 187 - 192
17 Following European Politics No access Pages 193 - 206
18 Making a Home in Paris No access Pages 207 - 214
19 New Constellations No access Pages 215 - 224
20 An Immoveable Feast No access Pages 225 - 230
21 Our Friends the Draft Resisters No access Pages 231 - 238
22 Showdown with Frannie No access Pages 239 - 246
23 May 1968 No access Pages 247 - 258
24 Showdown with Jack No access Pages 259 - 262
25 Lost Days No access Pages 263 - 274
26 Heidelberg Redux No access Pages 275 - 280
27 A Beaker of the Warm South No access Pages 281 - 292
28 The End of the Cold War No access Pages 293 - 308
