![]() ![]() We may feature it on the Come Fly The World website and on Julia Cooke's social media channels. What was your experience working as a stewardess like? Was someone famous ever on your flight? Tell us your best memory. Whether you worked for Pan Am, TWA, Delta, or any other airline, share your story with us. ![]() The stories of the women in Come Fly the World are just a small slice of stewardess history. Yankee Bookshop (signed & personalized copies available!) ![]() How and why they did all this and how it changed them-and the world-is a story that took six years of reporting and writing to complete. Julia 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. ![]() If you’ve ever been curious about the life of an international jet-age stewardess, stay tuned: in the pages of this book, women will almost drown off the coast of Liberia and dance all night in Nairobi, get tear-gassed in Vietnam War protests and then fly soldiers into that very war, fight history-making legal battles, doggedly pursue management positions, go on solo trips to incredible places, play “shake the KGB” together in Cold War Moscow, fly into an active war zone knowing only that almost 400 children needed evacuation, and much, much more. ![]()
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