Book pick: 'The Skies Belong to Us'
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Kerri Miller's book pick this week is "The Skies Belong to Us," a history of the hijacking epidemic of the early 1970s. At the time, airports had no security lines, x-ray machines, or sky marshals.
Brendan Koerner concentrates on the story of one spectacular hijacking by a Vietnam veteran and his girlfriend, but also tells the stories of the other criminals, eccentrics, activists, and mentally ill people who were hijacking commercial airliners almost weekly in the United States.
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