JET SET: THE PEOPLE, THE PLANES, THE GLAMOUR, AND THE ROMANCE IN AVIATION’ S GLORY YEARS

Book ID/图书代码： 01240013B61385

English Summary/英文概要： This fast-paced, engaging narrative nonfiction is for readers of Erik Larson and Michael Lewis. Susanna Porter acquired last year and we’ve been looking forward to reading the manuscript ever since and thrilled with what has been delivered!

In October, 1958, Pan Am began its first regularly scheduled flights between New York and Paris, thanks to the newly-minted jet plane, the Boeing 707. Almost overnight, the celebrities of the era--the world’s first "jet set"--made Europe their playground, setting the trends the rest of us would follow for decades. Jet Set tells the story of the planes, the people and the places that made this first decade of international travel the stuff of legend. No book has ever been written on this fascinating time when Americans began fast and frequent travel to Europe.

Almost overnight, the dream of international travel came true for thousands of Americans. Thanks to the quantum leap of technology that created the first jet planes in commercial service, the flight time to Europe was halved to a mere seven hours, the price of an economy seat cut to just $500. The Old World was the new place to be, and as usual, it was the rich and famous who led the way. Bestselling author and Vanity Fair contributor William Stadiem has written a wonderfully entertaining, gossipy, savvy memoir about the glamorous people who picked out the hot new places or often created them: Jackie Kennedy in Paris, Grace Kelly at the Prince’s Palace in Monaco, a topless Brigitte Bardot on the beach at St Tropez, a mini-skirted Mary Quant in James Bond London, Frank Sinatra with his hit 1958 hit single, "Come Fly with Me" that became the theme song of the new jet age...But Jet Set isn’t only about the Beautiful People. It’s also about the powerful people, the "Lords of the Wings" who built the planes, the airlines, the images: Juan Trippe of Pan Am, William Allen of Boeing, Mary Wells Lawrence of Madison Avenue, Conrad Hilton of his hotels. These jet set pioneers turned travel into an inalienable right, and even though the intimate 707 (seating 110) has long since been replaced by the knee-jamming 747 (420 seats), the people and events covered in this book stand as vibrant testimony to the exclusive early days of jet travel.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果你喜爱艾瑞克•拉森（Erik Larson）和麦克•刘易斯（Michael Lewis），那么你也一定会喜欢上这本节奏轻快同时又引人入胜的非小说类叙事作品。自去年苏珊娜•波特（Susanna Porter）获得了这部小说作品的手稿时起，我们便一直期待能够先睹为快，与此同时体验一番书中所传递出的阵阵快感！

1958年的十月，凭借着当时最新问世的波音707，泛美航空公司开始了其正常往返于纽约与巴黎间的航线。名流们的追捧使得乘坐喷气式豪华飞机旅游世界一夕间红极一时，欧洲成为了名人政客们的游玩云集之地，此举更是引得人们从此跟风，这一浪潮持续了十余年之久。美国人狂热地前往欧洲旅游的最初十年的景象是繁盛异常的，但却从未有人对这段精彩刺激的旅程加以记录和描绘，而《飞游世界》正是为我们重现了成就那十年传奇国际之旅的一架架飞机、一个个地点以及种种人事。

几乎一夜间，成万上万美国人的国际旅游梦得以实现。技术大飞跃使得第一架商用喷气式飞机的诞生成为可能，前往欧洲仅需七个小时，是以往耗时的一半，而经济舱的价格更是仅需500美元。曾经的旧大陆成为了人们的新去处，富商和名流们再一次引领了潮流。畅销书作家兼《名利场》杂志供稿人的威廉•斯塔蒂姆创作了一部娱乐性十足，充满闲谈意味和智言睿语的回忆录，讲述了那群慕名而来的人们:巴黎的杰克•肯尼迪，摩纳哥王子宫殿的凯莉，圣•洛佩斯独一无二的碧姬•芭杜，在邦德系列中身着超短裙的玛丽•昆特，以及1958年间凭借大热单曲Come Fly with Me名噪一时的法兰克•仙纳杜拉，而这一单曲更是成为了喷气时代的经典主题曲目。《飞游世界》中不仅记载了明星大腕，更是记录了诸多能人志士，记录了那些发明了飞机、航线以及图像的“天空主宰者”：泛美航空的创始人之一--胡安•特里普，波音总裁威廉•艾伦，麦迪逊大道广告奇女子玛丽•威尔斯•劳伦斯，康拉德•希尔顿和他的饭店等。本书中所提及的众多鲜活人物形象是喷气式飞机历史进程的开路人，正是他们使得乘坐飞机成为了一项不可剥夺的权利，虽然曾经舒适的波音707（可容纳110人）如今早已被拥挤的波音747所取代（可容纳424人），然而他们的形象和事迹将作为早年喷气式飞机发展史中不可磨灭的鲜活例证，永远地屹立在历史和人们的心中。（DC）

Awards/获奖情况：“Aeronautics history, high times from the 1950s and ’60s, incredibly versatile name-dropping (from Mrs. John Jacob Astor to Christine Keeler of the Profumo scandal) and Sinatra’s ‘Come Fly With Me’ as a kind of theme song [all] connected to the glamorous days of air travel.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“What a book William Stadium has written. . . . The Kennedys, the Rat Pack, Frank Sinatra, and early financiers like Eddie Gilbert are dealt with in depth. . . . I lived intimately through it all in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s and I am yet to find a mistake in author Stadiem’s amazing book. Order it now. All the players are here.”—Liz Smith, syndicated columnist

About the Author/作者介绍： 威廉•斯塔蒂姆，作家，著有畅销作品Mr S: My Life with Frank Sinatra（《S先生：弗兰克•辛纳塔先生与我的生活》）; Marilyn Monroe Confidential（《玛丽莲•梦露的秘密》）; Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond（《亲爱的议员：斯道姆•特蒙德女儿回忆录》）,以及大受好评的社会历史作品Too Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk(《富裕的烦恼：法洛可过往的奢华生活与悲剧死亡》)。作者为《名利场》杂志供稿，是好莱坞专栏作家，曾采访安迪•沃霍尔，并是洛杉矶杂志的酒店评论员。斯塔蒂姆不仅拥有哈佛法学和商学的双学位文凭，担任过华尔街国际律师，同时他还是一名极负盛名的银屏剧作家，其作品包括伊丽莎白•泰勒最后主演的vehicle，法兰高•齐费里尼主演的《少年托斯卡尼尼》，以及系列电视作品《洛城法网》。

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