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Flying down to Rio : Hollywood, tourists, and Yankee Clippers
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Flying down to Rio : Hollywood, tourists, and Yankee Clippers / by Rosalie Schwartz.
ISBN
1585443824 (alk. paper)
9781585443826 (alk. paper)
1585444219 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781585444212 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2004.
Physical Description
386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 09, 2011
Series
Centennial of flight series ; no. 10
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-373) and index.
Contents
An entertainment century
Reflections on wonderlands
Inventors and entertainers: aviation
Inventors and entertainers: movies
Surmountable contradictions
Lines in the sky
PAA and RKO: the Rio connection
Musical fantasies, political realities
Movies, airplanes, and touristic urges.
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