Publisher Description
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 story is "a dramatic and disturbing American story" (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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“This is a magisterial work; one of the most penetrating and fascinating biographies I have ever read. It deserves the highest praise from scholars, critics, and readers alike.”
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Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of Team of Rivals
About A. Scott Berg
Andrew
Scott Berg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American biographer. After graduating
from Princeton University in 1971, he expanded his senior thesis on editor
Maxwell Perkins into a full-length biography, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius,
which won a National Book Award. His third book, a highly anticipated biography
of aviator Charles Lindbergh, was published in 1998 and became a New York Times
bestseller, and won the Pulitzer Prize for a biography.
About Lloyd James
Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been narrating since 1996 and has recorded over six hundred audiobooks. He is a seven-time winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award and has twice been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award. His critically acclaimed performances include Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley Jr. and Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin, among others.