Lindbergh
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (623 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0425170411 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 640 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Renaissance Man, Renaissance Book" according to Mark Kratina. This was, without question, one of the best, most skillfully written biographies I have ever read. I try to be tough with my five star ratings, but A. Scott Berg's bio of Charles Lindbergh was simply too great a book to rate any less than five stars. What an interesting man Charles Lindbergh was- and to think that had he not made his famous flight in May 1927 he probably would have ended up being a farmer!! Lindbergh had a. What a fascinating man was Lindbergh. I don't generally read biographies. I don't have too many of them on my shelves, and usually they don't catch my eye when I go to the local Barnes & Noble. But for some reason, A. Scott Berg's biography of Charles Lindbergh jumped out at me when I saw it a few months ago. Maybe it was the little blurb on the cover that this book had won the Pulitzer. Maybe it was the additional blurb that this was a New York Times bestsell. A Customer said Insightful look into a great but deeply flawed man. Just reading the other reviews of Lindbergh gives a bit of insight into the incredible controversy that followed him throughout his life--something that Berg does a masterful job of examining. This is an outstanding book that nearly brought me to tears during the narrative of his historic flight but that also left me bewildered at times by Lindbergh's amazing naivete and ignorance. Clearly there will be people who can't ge
"Aviation created a brotherhood of casual acquaintances in which he felt comfortable," writes Berg with characteristic perceptiveness. . (During the horrendous days in 1932 when their 20-month-old son was kidnapped and killed, Berg notes, she never once saw Charles cry.) The biography is solid on all aspects of Lindbergh's career, including his notorious urging that America stay out of World War II; Berg rebuts charges that Lindbergh was a Nazi or a traitor, but rightly criticizes the anti-Semitism latent in some of his speeches. Scott Berg's thorough new biography of the aviator suggests that despite the public scrutiny that accompanied his every move until his death in 1974, Lindbergh remained an intensely private man. Charles Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris captured the imagination of a postwar generation hungry for heroes, and cemented an exalted spot for the 25-year-old pilot from Minnesota in the collective American imagination. Lindbergh's wife,
Lindbergh's is "a dramatic and disturbing American story," says the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and this biography—the first to be written with unrestricted access to the Lindbergh archives and extensive interviews of his friends, colleagues, and close family members—is "the definitive account.". Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh—renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in 1932, and reviled by many for his opposition to America's entry into World War II