Come Fly the World

p>strong>** Chosen as a May 2021 pick for The em>Fearless/em> Book Club by Nobel Peace Prize-Winner, Malala/strong> strong>Yousafzai **/strong>/p>p>strong>Travel writer Julia Cooke''s exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era./strong>br>br>Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am offered young women the world. 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.br>br>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.br>br>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>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Julia Cooke, Cooke Julia
• Editore: Icon Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781785786884
• ISBN: 978-1-78578-688-4
• Pagine: 288
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia contemporanea (dal 1945 al 1989); 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)