Come Fly the World: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace
Autor Julia Cookeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 apr 2021
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 Worldtells 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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781785786884
ISBN-10: 1785786881
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Icon Books Ltd
Colecția Icon Books Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1785786881
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Icon Books Ltd
Colecția Icon Books Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Julia
Cooke
is
a
journalist,
travel
writer
and
contributing
editor
at
Virginia
Quarterly
Review.
Her
work
has
featured
in
Time,
Condé
Nast
Traveller,
Salon
and
Best
Women's
Travel
Writing
(Vol.
9),
among
many
others,
and
she
has
taught
writing
at
The
New
School
and
Columbia
University.
Her
first
book,
The
Other
Side
of
Paradise
(Seal
Press)
profiled
young
Cubans
in
post-Fidel
Havana.
Cooke’s
writing
shows
a
persistent
interest
in
how
people—and
women,
in
particular—negotiate
individual
desires
and
ambitions
within
the
culture,
history,
and
politics
of
wherever
they
call
home.
She
lives
in
Vermont.
Recenzii
‘...In
confident,
clear-eyed,
multi-layered
prose,
Julia
Cooke
brings
to
life
the
true
stories
of
unforgettable
Pan-Am
stewardesses
who
defied
convention,
to
seek
more
from
life
than
they
were
given.
This
is
a
well-researched
and
fascinating
history
of
air
travel,
gender
equality,
and
so
much
more.’
‘Come Fly the World is a pop passport to another time. Take a social history flight with the women of Pan Am.’
‘Before second-wave feminism came along to challenge the admissions policies of law, medical, and business schools, there were stewardesses—women every bit as daring and determined as their later counterparts in the professions, and having more fun... [Come Fly the World is] a rollicking, rambunctious ride down the runway of mid-century modern life.’
‘This engrossing account, which reads like a novel, offers a combination of riveting personal stories and little-known history, and will draw in readers from the first page.’
‘Here’s the chance to travel—in time and in the sky—vicariously. Julia Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life tales of a memorable cast of Pan Am flight attendants as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. The nonfiction work also unearths little-known stories about how Pan Am flight attendants went above and beyond, including their role in the Vietnam War.’
‘Come Fly the World is a pop passport to another time. Take a social history flight with the women of Pan Am.’
‘Before second-wave feminism came along to challenge the admissions policies of law, medical, and business schools, there were stewardesses—women every bit as daring and determined as their later counterparts in the professions, and having more fun... [Come Fly the World is] a rollicking, rambunctious ride down the runway of mid-century modern life.’
‘This engrossing account, which reads like a novel, offers a combination of riveting personal stories and little-known history, and will draw in readers from the first page.’
‘Here’s the chance to travel—in time and in the sky—vicariously. Julia Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life tales of a memorable cast of Pan Am flight attendants as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. The nonfiction work also unearths little-known stories about how Pan Am flight attendants went above and beyond, including their role in the Vietnam War.’