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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Cooke, Julia, author.

Title: Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am / Julia Cooke.

Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: LCSH: Pan American World Airways, Inc.—History. | Pan American World Airways, Inc.—Employees—Biography. | Flight attendants—United States—History—20th century. | Flight attendants—United States—Biography. | Sex role in the work environment—United States.

Classification: LCC HD8039.A432 U6323 2021 (print) | LCC HD8039.A432 (ebook) | DDC 387.7/42092273—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020034163

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020034164

Cover Design by Jessica Handelman

Cover Illustration © Lincoln Agnew

Cover Images: Getty Images (main woman, reflection in glasses, walking stewardesses) and The Pan American World Airways Digital Collection at The University Of Miami (plane, waving stewardess, map, logo on hat, yellow pan am logo)

Maps by Lucidity Information Design, LLC. Adapted from the 1968 edition of New Horizons World Guide. Used by permission of Pan Am Airways, Inc. Records, Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries.

Letters of Lynne Totten, 1966–1975, used by kind permission of Lynne D. Rawling.

Letters of Karen Ryan, 1966–1974, used by kind permission of Karen Walker Ryan.

“The Air Hostess” by Army Warrant Officer Jim Reese used by permission of World Wings International, Inc. Records, Courtesy of Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries.

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