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Lindbergh Alone (Paperback)
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Lindbergh Alone (Paperback)
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Loot Price R467
Discovery Miles 4 670
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"The day after which nothing would be the same for him was Friday,
May 20, 1927. That morning, alone in a little plane powered by a
single engine, Charles A. Lindbergh took off from a muddy runway on
the outskirts of New York. His destination was Paris." So begins
Brendan Gill's book about the most extraordinary feat of one of our
country's most extraordinary men. With clarity of vision and
characteristic elegance, Gill gives us in Lindbergh Alone a
meditation on one man's unprecedented accomplishment, and the
world's overwhelming response to it. Originally published for the
fiftieth anniversary of the flight, Gill did not intend to write a
standard biography of Lindbergh; rather, Gill attempted to describe
an unknown young man at one moment in history, and to examine the
forces that led him to act as he did. The 1920s were a period that
sought out heroes and worshipped them extravagantly; few heroes
were so unlike the age that fostered them as this "unheralded boy"
of twenty-five. A shy man, bold hearted and firm of purpose, the
Lindbergh we come to know in Gill's book is one whose intelligence
and strength of will enabled him, through a single, superb act, to
become perhaps the most celebrated figure of his time. Lindbergh
Alone persuades us that Lindbergh's valorous flight and subsequent
renown were the natural consequences of his upbringing and his own
nature. It also demonstrates that, on rare occasions, a man is
capable of making history by his own choice.
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