In fact, except for a couple of articles in The New York Times immediately following the initial revelations a decade ago, the American press has said nary a word. As Dyrk Hesshaimer told me in an interview that I conducted in Munich last fall in order to complete the Lindbergh chapter in my forthcoming book, America’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation, no American publisher wanted anything to do with it.

| Air pilots - United States - Biography.This German biography made headlines all over Europe, but fell on strangely deaf ears in America.

Goddard his soul-searching visit to Camp Dora at Bergen-Belsen his life with the primitive Masai tribe in Africa, and his discovery of the Tasaday in the Philippines his fight to save the whales off the coasts of Japan and Peru and his deeply moving final days in Maui, where he supervised the digging of his own grave.

Alexis Carrel, developing the precursor to an artificial heart his pioneering support of rocket scientist Robert H. At the heart of it all is his fascinating, complex marriage with Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a relationship far from the storybook romance the public imagined, one filled with sudden joy and bitter darkness, and which forged her into one of the century's leading feminist voices.īerg exposes the many facets of the private Lindbergh, including his ingenious medical work with Dr. Berg casts dramatic new light on the lonely, sometimes twisted childhood that formed his character the astonishing flight and thrilling, then overwhelming aftermath the controversies surrounding the trial of his son's accused kidnapper the storm over Lindbergh's fascination with Hitler's Germany and over his active role in the isolationist America First movement and his remarkable unsung work devoted to medical research, rocketry, anthropology, and conservation. The result is a biography that clarifies a life long blurred by myth and half-truth.įrom the moment he landed in Paris on May 21, 1927, Lindbergh found himself thrust upon an odyssey for which he was ill prepared - the first modern media superstar, deified and demonized many times over in a single lifetime. Scott Berg is the first and only writer to have been given unrestricted access to the massive Lindbergh archives - more than two thousand boxes of personal papers, including reams of unpublished letters and diaries - and to be allowed freely to interview Lindbergh's friends, colleagues, and family members, including his children and his widow, Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

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