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"Somewhere in the tangle of the subject's burden and the subject's
desire is your story."-Alex Tizon Every human being has an epic
story. The late Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alex Tizon told the
epic stories of marginalized people-from lonely immigrants
struggling to forge a new American identity to a high school
custodian who penned a New Yorker short story. Edited by Tizon's
friend and former colleague Sam Howe Verhovek, Invisible People
collects the best of Tizon's rich, empathetic accounts-including
"My Family's Slave," the Atlantic magazine cover story about the
woman who raised him and his siblings under conditions that
amounted to indentured servitude. Mining his Filipino American
background, Tizon tells the stories of immigrants from Cambodia and
Laos. He gives a fascinating account of the Beltway sniper and
insightful profiles of Surfers for Jesus and a man who tracks UFOs.
His articles-many originally published in the Seattle Times and the
Los Angeles Times-are brimming with enlightening details about
people who existed outside the mainstream's field of vision. In
their introductions to Tizon's pieces, New York Times executive
editor Dean Baquet, Atlantic magazine editor in chief Jeffrey
Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize winners Kim Murphy and Jacqui Banaszynski,
and others salute Tizon's respect for his subjects and the beauty
and brilliance of his writing. Invisible People is a loving tribute
to a journalist whose search for his own identity prompted him to
chronicle the lives of others.
The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who
raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet.
In "Jet Age," journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of
the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed,
built, and flew them. The path to jet travel was triumphal and
amazingly rapid-less than fifty years after the Wright Brothers'
first flight at Kitty Hawk, Great Britain led the world with the
first commercial jet plane service. Yet the pioneering British
Comet was cursed with a tragic, mysterious flaw, and an upstart
Seattle company put a new competitor in the sky: the Boeing 707 Jet
Stratoliner. "Jet Age" vividly recreates the race between two
nations, two global airlines, and two rival teams of brilliant
engineers for bragging rights to the first jet service across the
Atlantic Ocean in 1958.
At the center of this story are great minds and courageous souls,
including Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, who spearheaded the
development of the Comet, even as two of his sons lost their lives
flying earlier models of his aircraft; Sir Arnold Hall, the
brilliant British aerodynamicist tasked with uncovering the Comet's
fatal flaw; Bill Allen, Boeing's deceptively mild-mannered
president; and Alvin "Tex" Johnston, Boeing's swashbuckling but
supremely skilled test pilot. The extraordinary airplanes
themselves emerge as characters in the drama. As the Comet and the
Boeing 707 go head-to-head, flying twice as fast and high as the
propeller planes that preceded them, the book captures the
electrifying spirit of an era: the Jet Age.
In the spirit of Stephen Ambrose's "Nothing Like It in the World,"
Verhovek's "Jet Age" offers a gorgeous rendering of an exciting age
and fascinating technology that permanently changed our conception
of distance and time, of a triumph of engineering and design, and
of a company that took a huge gamble and won.
“Somewhere in the tangle of the subject’s burden and the
subject’s desire is your story.”—Alex Tizon Every
human being has an epic story. The late Pulitzer Prize–winning
writer Alex Tizon told the epic stories of marginalized
people—from lonely immigrants struggling to forge a new American
identity to a high school custodian who penned a New Yorker short
story. Edited by Tizon’s friend and former colleague Sam Howe
Verhovek, Invisible People collects the best of Tizon’s rich,
empathetic accounts—including “My Family’s Slave,” the
Atlantic magazine cover story about the woman who raised him and
his siblings under conditions that amounted to indentured
servitude. Mining his Filipino American background, Tizon tells the
stories of immigrants from Cambodia and Laos. He gives a
fascinating account of the Beltway sniper and insightful profiles
of Surfers for Jesus and a man who tracks UFOs. His articles—many
originally published in the Seattle Times and the Los Angeles
Times—are brimming with enlightening details about people who
existed outside the mainstream’s field of vision. In their
introductions to Tizon’s pieces, New York Times executive editor
Dean Baquet, Atlantic magazine editor in chief Jeffrey
Goldberg, Pulitzer Prize winners Kim Murphy and Jacqui Banaszynski,
and others salute Tizon’s respect for his subjects and the beauty
and brilliance of his writing. Invisible People is a loving tribute
to a journalist whose search for his own identity prompted him to
chronicle the lives of others.
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