{"id":143731,"date":"2021-04-19T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143731"},"modified":"2021-04-12T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T16:28:41","slug":"two-titles-on-jens-tbr-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=143731","title":{"rendered":"Two Titles on Jen’s TBR List"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters – Andrew Morton<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Perfect for fans of\u00a0The Crown<\/i>, this captivating biography from a\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestselling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight.<\/p>\n

They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called ‘Lillibet.’ And bow to her wishes.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth would always look upon her younger sister’s antics with a kind of stoical amusement, but Margaret’s struggle to find a place and position inside the royal system\u2014and her fraught relationship with its expectations\u2014was often a source of tension. Famously, the Queen had to inform Margaret that the Church and government would not countenance her marrying a divorcee, Group Captain Peter Townsend, forcing Margaret to choose between keeping her title and royal allowances or her divorcee lover.<\/p>\n

From the idyll of their cloistered early life, through their hidden war-time lives, into the divergent paths they took following their father’s death and Elizabeth’s ascension to the throne, this book explores their relationship over the years. Andrew Morton’s latest biography offers unique insight into these two drastically different sisters\u2014one resigned to duty and responsibility, the other resistant to it\u2014and the lasting impact they have had on the Crown, the royal family, and the ways it adapted to the changing mores of the 20th century.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am – Julia Cooke<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men<\/i>\u2013era of\u00a0commercial flight, Pan Am\u00a0World\u00a0Airways attracted\u00a0the\u00a0kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up<\/p>\n

Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess\u00a0the\u00a0political savvy of a Foreign Service officer,\u00a0a\u00a0<\/b>jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5\u20323″ and 5\u20329″, between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire. Cooke\u2019s 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\u2019 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\u2014the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon\u2014the book\u2019s special cast of stewardesses unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters – Andrew Morton “Perfect for fans of\u00a0The Crown, this captivating biography from a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Elizabeth-and-Margaret.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-Bof","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143736,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143731\/revisions\/143736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}