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Lindbergh
by A. Scott Berg
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0333735781
- ISBN 13
- 9780333735787
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About This Item
Macmillan, Australia, 1998. First Australian Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. In May 1927 Lindbergh became the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop. He had spent over 33 hours in the air and was feted as a new American hero. The media attention he received intensified in 1932 when his 20-month-old baby was kidnapped. The infamous "Lindbergh baby" was later found dead and the trial of the assumed kidnapper, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, generated a public hysteria which forced the Lindberghs into exile in Europe. Linbergh's admiration for the Nazi regime in Germany brought him a decoration from Hermann Goering and, upon his return to America in 1939, he became a leading spokesman of the America First facist movement but public opinion began to turn against him. When the United States entered the war, Lindbergh offered to enlist in the Air Force but Roosevelt refused to let him serve although he later flew in many unofficial combat missions in the South Pacific. This biography reveals the many facets of the private Lindbergh. 628 pages. Tanning to pages. Dust Jacket has fading to spine edge. Inscription to previous owner on half title page. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0333735781. ISBN/EAN: 9780333735787. Inventory No: 256971. . 9780333735787
Synopsis
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. 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."
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 256971
- Title
- Lindbergh
- Author
- A. Scott Berg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Australian Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0333735781
- ISBN 13
- 9780333735787
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Unbranded ISBN: 0333735781 EAN: 9780333735787 A. Scott Berg Lindbergh
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- Biography;
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