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Summary
Bestselling author and National Book Award'winner A. Scott Berg is the first and only writer to be 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access to the massive Lindbergh archives--more than two thousand boxes of personal papers, including reams of unpublished letters and diaries--and to be allowed freely to interview Lindbergh's friends, colleagues, and family members, including his children and his widow, Anne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. The result is a brilliant biography that clarifies a life long blurred by myth and half-truth.From the moment he landed in Paris on May 21, 1927, Lindbergh found himself thrust on an odyssey for which he was ill-prepared--becoming the first modern media superstar, deified and demonized many times over in a single lifetime. Berg casts dramatic new light on the lonely, sometimes twisted childhood that formed the aviator's character; the astonishing transatlantic flight and thrilling, then overwhelming aftermath; the controversies surrounding the trial of his son's kidnapper, Lindbergh's fascination with Hitler's Germany and his leadership of America First; his remarkable unsung work in the fields of medical research, rocketry, anthropology, and conservation; and, at the heart of it all, his fascinating, complex marriage to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a relationship filled with sudden joy and bitter darkness.In all, it is a most compelling story of a most significant life--the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg, this is Lindbergh the hero--and Lindbergh the man.
Author Notes
Chris L. Demarest received a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from the University of Massachusetts. Before becoming an author and a children's book illustrator, he was a house painter and contributed illustrations to such publications as the Atlantic Monthly magazine, the Boston Globe, and Reader's Digest. He has contributed to more than 100 titles including Firefighters A to Z, I Invited a Dragon to Dinner, T. Rex at Swan Lake, and the Supertwins series. While researching the United States Coast Guard book, Mayday!Mayday!, he became an official artist for the Coast Guard and got to experience their work in the Persian Gulf.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Chris L. Demarest received a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from the University of Massachusetts. Before becoming an author and a children's book illustrator, he was a house painter and contributed illustrations to such publications as the Atlantic Monthly magazine, the Boston Globe, and Reader's Digest. He has contributed to more than 100 titles including Firefighters A to Z, I Invited a Dragon to Dinner, T. Rex at Swan Lake, and the Supertwins series. While researching the United States Coast Guard book, Mayday!Mayday!, he became an official artist for the Coast Guard and got to experience their work in the Persian Gulf.
(Bowker Author Biography)
A. Scott Berg was born in Norwalk, Connecticut on December 4, 1949. He became fascinated with novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald while he was in high school. Berg even went so far as to attend Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1971, mainly because it was Fitzgerald's alma mater.
While studying 20th-century literature at Princeton, Berg noticed that one name - that of editor Max Perkins - kept coming up in connection with authors such as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe. He decided to base his senior thesis on Max Perkins. Berg's research on Perkins continued for several years after graduation, eventually culminating in the 1978 publication of Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which received the American Book Award.
His other works include Goldwyn: A Biography and Kate Remembered, He also made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2013 for his title Wilson. Lindbergh won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1998. He also wrote the story for a film entitled Making Love (1982).
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (7)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3-A succinct picture-book biography that stresses Lindbergh's interest in speed and flight, culminating in his dashing transatlantic feat. Highlighted events from the subject's action-packed life set the pace. He is shown to be a resourceful, self-reliant, adventuresome youngster who builds his own tree house, loves to tinker and becomes an excellent mechanic, and eventually wing walks in barnstorming events and flies the first U.S. airmail routes in brutal Chicago winters. The clear prose relates the pertinent facts briefly and with verve. Watercolor illustrations are crisp and light filled, with energy to match the text. An afterword includes a bit about Lindbergh's later life and notes a few titles for further reading, films, and places to visit. An enticing title that will make primary-grade readers want to read on.-Barbara Peklo Abrahams, Oneida City Schools, Manlius, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Demarest focuses on Lindbergh's childhood and youth in this picture-book biography enlivened by attention-grabbing, humorous details and soft watercolors. Young readers fascinated by Robert Burleigh's 'Flight' (Philomel) will find the book an informative follow-up. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3-A succinct picture-book biography that stresses Lindbergh's interest in speed and flight, culminating in his dashing transatlantic feat. Highlighted events from the subject's action-packed life set the pace. He is shown to be a resourceful, self-reliant, adventuresome youngster who builds his own tree house, loves to tinker and becomes an excellent mechanic, and eventually wing walks in barnstorming events and flies the first U.S. airmail routes in brutal Chicago winters. The clear prose relates the pertinent facts briefly and with verve. Watercolor illustrations are crisp and light filled, with energy to match the text. An afterword includes a bit about Lindbergh's later life and notes a few titles for further reading, films, and places to visit. An enticing title that will make primary-grade readers want to read on.-Barbara Peklo Abrahams, Oneida City Schools, Manlius, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Demarest focuses on Lindbergh's childhood and youth in this picture-book biography enlivened by attention-grabbing, humorous details and soft watercolors. Young readers fascinated by Robert Burleigh's 'Flight' (Philomel) will find the book an informative follow-up. From HORN BOOK 1993, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
Lindbergh, writes Berg, was "the most celebrated living person ever to walk the earth." It's a brash statement for a biography that makes its points through a wealth of fact rather than editorial (or psychological) surmise, but after the 1927 solo flight to Paris and the 1932 kidnapping of his infant son, most readers will agree. Berg (Max Perkins) writes with the cooperation, although not necessarily the approval, of the Lindbergh family, having been granted full access to the unpublished diaries and papers of both Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The result is a solidly written book that while revealing few new secrets (there are discoveries about Lindbergh's father's illegitimacy and Mrs. Lindbergh's 1956 affair with her doctor, Dana Atchley) instructs and fascinates through the richness of detail. There are no new insights into the boy flier, no new theories about the kidnapping, but there is a chilling portrait of a man who did not seem to enjoy many of the most basic human emotions. Perhaps more attention to Lindbergh's near-worship of the Nobel Prize-winning doctor, Alexis Carrel, would have explained more about his enigmatic character. Berg details Lindbergh's prewar trips to Nazi Germany at the request of the U.S. government; his leadership in the America First movement; his role in first promoting commercial aviation; and, during WWII, improving the efficiency of the Army Air Corps. As the book reaches its conclusion, however, it's the sympathetic portrait of Mrs. Lindbergh creating a life of her own while her husband chooses to be elsewhere that gives the biography the emotional scaffolding it lacked. The writing is workmanlike and efficient, and the story, familiar as it may be, encapsulates the history of the century. Photos. (Sept.) FYI: Putnam was said to have paid a seven-figure advance for Lindbergh in 1990. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
A magisterial work chronicling the life of a great American hero, from a National Book Awardwinning author. If you're writing a biography, choosing a subject involved in both one of the century's great adventures and one of its great tragedies is a good start. If you go beyond a barrier-breaking flight to Paris and a baby's kidnapping and can still draw upon controversial opposition to entering WWII and major contributions to the development of commercial aviation, so much the better. That this figure was also constantly in the media spotlight, regularly met with leading luminaries throughout the world, and had a wife whose life and accomplishments are fascinating in their own right, you have the substantive ingredients for a great biography. Fortunately for all of us, Berg (Goldwyn: A Biography, 1989; Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, 1978.) does a superb job with this material. His account of Lindbergh's life is detailed without plodding, and extensive without seeming long; the pace is excellent throughout, with the reader continually drawn forward by the prose, even though one already knows what is going to happen. Berg's perspective on Lindbergh is admiring but not fawning or unbalanced. Despite the appropriate respect accorded a man who genuinely did great things, Berg does not shy away from Lindbergh's apparent anti-Semitism, his rigidity as a parent, regular absences as a husband, and lifelong restlessness. There's an evenhanded look at Lindbergh's trips to Germany and politics prior to WWII, and the insights into Lindbergh's relations with the press are particularly interesting. As the first real media star, Lindbergh had an extreme reaction to the constant hounding by reporters and photographersunprecedented in his daythat becomes understandable. Imagine coverage of Michael Jordan after the NBA finals, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the British royal family all rolled into one. Who, faced with this barrage, wouldn't become uncommunicative and flee the country? With Berg's free access to previously unavailable documentation, this is sure to be the definitive biography of Lindbergh. (First serial to Vanity Fair; film rights to DreamWorks)
Library Journal Review
A prize-winning biographer offers the definitive look at an American hero. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Part 1 | |
| 1 Karma | p. 3 |
| 2 Northern Lights | p. 10 |
| 3 No Place Like Home | p. 27 |
| 4 Under a Wing | p. 54 |
| 5 Spirit | p. 81 |
| 6 Perchance to Dream | p. 112 |
| Part 2 | |
| 7 Only a Man | p. 135 |
| 8 Unicorns | p. 178 |
| 9 "We" | p. 203 |
| 10 Sourland | p. 236 |
| 11 Apprehension | p. 276 |
| 12 Circus Maximus | p. 307 |
| Part 3 | |
| 13 Rising Tides | p. 345 |
| 14 The Great Debate | p. 384 |
| 15 Clipped Wings | p. 433 |
| Part 4 | |
| 16 Phoenix | p. 461 |
| 17 Double Sunrise | p. 491 |
| 18 Alone Together | p. 510 |
| 19 Aloha | p. 533 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 565 |
| Notes and Sources | p. 569 |
| Permissions | p. 613 |
| Index | p. 615 |