Book Review: You Don’t Belong Here

Talia Whyte Books

This is another book I found out about on Book TV.  You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by journalist Elizabeth Becker is about three groundbreaking women journalists who covered the Vietnam War.  I was intrigued by this book because I don’t remember learning about any of these women in journalism school.

I even took a foreign correspondence class and the history of women journalists was very limited.  While I never wanted to cover war, I briefly had an interest in becoming a foreign correspondent when I was in college.  At that time, there weren’t many female correspondents who covered war, except Christiane Amanpour.

I ended up taking a slight detour into marketing communications for international NGOs.

So, it was really cool to read this.  If I had known about these women in school, I might have had a different career trajectory!

Book Review: Come Fly The World

Talia Whyte Books

I found out about this book while watching author Julia Cooke on Book TV. I’m so glad I read it because I learned a lot about the airline industry. Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am follows the many stories of female flight attendants during the height of the airline’s popularity in the 60s and 70s.  It truly is a feminist story because being a flight attendant at that time was both restrictive and revolutionary at the same time.