Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am / Julia Cooke.
"A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"-- Provided by publisher.
Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted upRequired to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire.Cooke's intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from small-town girl Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few Black stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Cooke brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses' role in the Vietnam War, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields, who were off for five days of R&R, and then flown back to war. Finally, with Operation Babylift-the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon-the book's special cast of stewardesses unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780358251408
- ISBN: 0358251400
- ISBN: 9780358699187
- ISBN: 1785787799
- Physical Description: vii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | publisher, date of publication and page numbers may vary |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-256) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A jet-age job -- Horizons unlimited -- A woman in uniform -- Pipeline to paradise -- Foreign service -- Pan Am was the American flag -- Unequivocally in the world -- One, two, three, what are we fighting for? -- What do you women want? -- I'm okay, you're okay -- Open skies for Negro girls -- She's so busy being free -- Splendid capitalist airplanes -- De facto feminist -- A matter of serious and continuing concern -- An extension of the airline -- Everything flyable -- War comes aboard -- The most incredible scene -- The only lonely place was on the moon. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | 387.742 COOKE 2021 (Text) | 0001002437299 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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