Collision course : Ronald Reagan, the air traffic controllers, and the strike that changed America /
"In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmi...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Getting the picture
- The main bang
- Pushing back
- Wheels up
- Confliction
- Course correction
- Flight ceiling
- Turbulence
- Down the tubes
- Pilot error
- Dead reckoning
- Trading paint
- Aluminum rain
- Debris field
- Black box.
