Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
(2021)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
387.742/COOKE,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 387.742/COOKE,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021
DESCRIPTION

vii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780358251408, 0358251400 :, 0358251400, 9780358251408
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

"A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"--