Fighter Pilot's Daughter

Mary Lawlor

doi:10.5771/9781442222014

Fighter Pilot's Daughter

Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War

Published 2013

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doi.org/10.5771/9781442222014
ISBN print: 978-1-4422-2200-7
ISBN online: 978-1-4422-2201-4
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Abstract

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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American Studies

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Preface
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
1–22 Introduction: The Pilot’s House 1–22
23–38 1 Learning to Fly 23–38
39–48 2 Frannie’s Days of Yore 39–48
49–58 3 The Coming of the Cold War 49–58
59–74 4 Waiting Out Korea 59–74
75–92 5 Camping Out in Miami and Topsail 75–92
93–100 6 School Pains and Home Wars 93–100
101–108 7 Trouble with the Army 101–108
109–120 8 Strange Days in the Deep South 109–120
121–134 9 Coming of Age in California 121–134
135–142 10 Cold War Catholicism, JFK, and Cuba 135–142
143–148 11 The Discipline of Synchronized Swimming 143–148
149–152 12 Saint Brigit/Bardot 149–152
153–164 13 Back to the Swamps 153–164
165–176 14 Transition Out of America 165–176
177–186 15 Germany in the 1960s 177–186
187–192 16 At Play in the Fields of Empire 187–192
193–206 17 Following European Politics 193–206
207–214 18 Making a Home in Paris 207–214
215–224 19 New Constellations 215–224
225–230 20 An Immoveable Feast 225–230
231–238 21 Our Friends the Draft Resisters 231–238
239–246 22 Showdown with Frannie 239–246
247–258 23 May 1968 247–258
259–262 24 Showdown with Jack 259–262
263–274 25 Lost Days 263–274
275–280 26 Heidelberg Redux 275–280
281–292 27 A Beaker of the Warm South 281–292
293–308 28 The End of the Cold War 293–308
309–318 Notes 309–318
319–322 Index 319–322
323–323 About the Author 323–323

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