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Title: Come Fly the World
Condition: New
EAN: 9781785786884
ISBN: 9781785786884
Publisher: Icon Books
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 08/04/2021
Item Height: 222mm
Item Length: 144mm
Item Width: 29mm
Item Weight: 420g
Author: Julia Cooke
Language: English
Subtitle: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace
ISBN-10: 1785786881
Description:

** Chosen as a May 2021 pick for The Fearless Book Club by Nobel Peace Prize-Winner, Malala Yousafzai **

Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.



Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am offered young women the world. Come Fly the World tells the story of the stewardesses who served on the iconic Pan American Airways between 1966 and 1975 - and of the unseen diplomatic role they played on the world stage.



Alongside the glamour was real danger, as they flew soldiers to and from Vietnam and staffed Operation Babylift - the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon. Cooke's storytelling weaves together the true stories of women like Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few African American stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of a jet-set life.



In the process, Cooke shows how the sexualized coffee-tea-or-me stereotype was at odds with the importance of what they did, and with the freedom, power and sisterhood they achieved.

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