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The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Mariner Books
May 2022
On Sale: April 26, 2022
288 pages
ISBN: 0358699185
EAN: 9780358699187
Kindle: B08B3CDMFQ
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Historical
Required to have a college degree, 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 twenty-six years old 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 two thousand children during the fall of
Saigon—the book’s special cast of stewardesses
unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage.
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