The world went wild with emotion in May 1927 when a 25-year-old
Minnesota farm boy, turned airmail pilot, astounded the people of
the globe with his highly prepared, excitingly daring, solo flight
from New York to Paris. The plane, which he designed, is still one
of the most popular attractions in the Smithsonian Institution.
Much is known about the Spirit of St. Louis. Not so much is known
about the spirit of the man who flew it. "The public's reception of
him took on the aspects of a vast religious revival, " wrote a book
editor. A Harvard theologian says that for the time "Lindbergh
changed the reputation of human nature." The pilot's character
immensely magnified the achievement. His modesty and courtesy
became legendary. It was said that his place in history was secured
not only by what he did before and during that flight, but what he
did not do after it. Will Rogers wrote, "People hadn't read clean
stuff in so long they just went crazy over this." T. Willard
Hunter, a personal acquaintance of Charles Lindbergh, weighs the
character element of the Lindbergh phenomenon. He examines what
went into that character - the Swedish heritage, family influences,
his "lone eagle" childhood, attitudes toward religion, his early
worship of science and later alarm at the global destruction
threatened by "materialistic science, " and his views on the role
of force in both preserving and toppling civilization. The author
explores Lindbergh's U.S. intelligence activities in Germany before
World War II, his struggle against American participation, his
concern for the plight of German Jews, the Nazi-sympathy charges,
the Goering medal, and why he experienced such a devastating fall
from grace. Thisbook is about the inner man and tries at each stage
to deal with the why, with the motivations, with what made
Lindbergh tick. It is a fresh understanding of a complex
personality who contributed greatly to the way life is lived on
this planet.
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