Henry Carter Hull

Describes the early life of Charles Lindberg, leading up to his history-making transatlantic flight in 1927.

"The narrative surrounding Charles Lindbergh's life has been as varying and complex as the man himself. Once best known as an aviator -- the first to complete a solo nonstop transatlantic flight -- he has since become increasingly identified with his sympathies for white supremacy, eugenics, and the Nazi regime in Germany. Underexplored amid all this is Lindbergh's spiritual life. What beliefs drove the contradictory impulses of this twentieth-century...

GRIPPING... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT. -- WALL STREET JOURNA, From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history comes a masterful account of Lindbergh's death-defying nonstop transatlantic flight in Spirit of St. Louis On the rainy morning of May 20, 1927, a little-known American pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, and prepared to take off from a small airfield on Long Island, New...

The author, youngest daughter of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, tells what it was like growing up in a family subjected to both celebrity and tragedy.

The American people were aroused to a white-hot anger. Clergymen of all faiths joined in prayer. Messages of sympathy came in from presidents, prime ministers, dictators, friends, crackpots, the morbid, the curious…THE LINDBERGH BABY HAD BEEN KIDNAPED! State, city and federal law enforcement groups vied with each other for publicity. Detectives, nationally known gangsters and charlatans offered their services as go-betweens. Reporters from all over...