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Koerner graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor degree.
(In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demis...)
In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week, using guns, bombs, and jars of acid. Some hijackers wished to escape to foreign lands; others aimed to swap hostages for sacks of cash. Their criminal exploits mesmerized the country, never more so than when shattered Army veteran Roger Holder and mischievous party girl Cathy Kerkow managred to comandeer Western Airlines Flight 701 and flee across an ocean with a half-million dollars in ransom—a heist that remains the longest-distance hijacking in American history. More than just an enthralling story about a spectacular crime and its bittersweet, decades-long aftermath, The Skies Belong to Us is also a psychological portrait of America at its most turbulent and a testament to the madness that can grip a nation when politics fail.
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(In an America where airplane hijackings were shockingly c...)
In an America where airplane hijackings were shockingly common, the young lovers at the heart of "The Skies Belong to Us" pulled off the longest-distance hijacking in American history. A shattered Army veteran and a mischievous party girl commandeered Western Airlines Flight 701 as a vague protest against the war and half-million dollars in ransom.
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Koerner graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor degree.
His books include Now the Hell Will Start (2008) and The Skies Belong to Us (2013). In college, he contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record. Koerner"s first journalism job out of school was at United States News & World Report as a researcher and fact checker, he eventually became senior editors
Koerner left United States Navy&WR to become a freelance writer in 2000, and was a regular contributor to The New Republic, Mother Jones, Harper"s Magazine, Legal Affairs, Washington Monthly, and the Christian Science Monitor.
He was also a columnist for Gizmodo.com, Slate.com, The New York Times Sunday Business section and the Village Voice (as "Mr Roboto"). In addition, Koerner has served as a contributing editor to Wired.
He has also published in magazines such as Details, Spin and Men"s Journal. In 2006, Koerner edited the anthology The Best of Technology Writing which was positively reviewed in California Bookwatch and SciTech Book News.
His first solo authored full length book, Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier"s Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World World War II, was published by Penguin Press in 2008.
lieutenant is a non-fiction narrative investigating and recounting the story of Herman Perry, an African-American World World War II soldier stationed in the China-Burma-India theatre of the war. Perry killed a white officer while helping construct the Ledo Road. He subsequently retreated into the Indo-Burmese wilderness and joined a tribe of the headhunting Nagas.
The book was favorably reviewed.
In 2009, Spike Lee optioned the film rights and Lee commissioned Koerner to write a draft of the screenplay. In 2011, Koerner published Piano Demon: The Globetrotting, Gin-Soaked, Too-Short Life of Teddy Weatherford, the Chicago Jazzman Who Conquered Asia, it is about the jazz musician Teddy Weatherford.
The book was sold as an e-book and audiobook only and is shorter than a full-length book Koerner"s third book, is a history of the "golden age" of skyjacking in the United States from the first incident in May 1961 through January 1973, when there were as many as one skyjacking a week or about 159 in total.
The book looks at the causes of the epidemic, some of the more famous ones and follows in-depth the story of the longest-distance skyjacking in American history, involving Willie Roger Holder and Catherine Marie Kerkow, a young couple who took control of Western Airlines Flight 701 on June 2, 1972.
The book was favorably reviewed including in the New York Times Book Review, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The National (Abu Dhabi), SFGate, and Bookforum.
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