Come Fly the World - The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace

p>strong >At a time when that 1960s notion of air travel as decadent and exceptional is experiencing an unexpected revival, this book ... could be the G&T in a plastic glass you need.'' /strong>strong>em>The Spectator/em>/strong>/p>p>strong>Travel writer Julia Cooke''s exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era./strong>/p>p>em>Come Fly the World/em> 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./p>p>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./p>p>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./p>

Product details

• Authors: Julia Cooke, Cooke Julia
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781785787799
• ISBN: 978-1-78578-779-9
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, True stories, TRANSPORTATION / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Travel writing, True stories: general, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Transport: general interest, Biography: historical, political and military, True stories of discovery, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)