Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flying High Over the Cotton Field: The Life and Times of Robert W. (Bill/Bob) Coggin | 2018 | Robert W. Coggin | Buy |
Robert W. Coggin published his memoir Flying High Over the Cotton Field in 2018 to share the story of a life that began on a Georgia farm and ended in the executive offices of one of America’s largest airlines.
The book covers Coggin’s childhood in a small mill village, where chores meant picking cotton and working behind a mule-drawn plow. His enlistment in the U.S. Air Force introduced him to communications technology, and that experience helped him land a job at Delta Air Lines in 1956. Starting as a ramp worker, Coggin spent over forty years at Delta, rising through the ranks until he retired in 1998 as one of the airline’s top four leaders. The memoir is both a personal story and a snapshot of the American airline industry during its period of greatest growth.