MediaType eBook shortDescription 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 up PublishDate T05:00:00+00:00 publishDateText otherFormatIdentifiers The daughter of a former Pan Am executive, Cooke grew up in the Pan Am "family," a still-strong network across the globe. She is the author of The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba. bioText: JULIA COOKE is a journalist and travel writer whose features and personal essays have been published in Time, Smithsonian, Condé Nast Traveler, and Saveur.
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