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Summary
A. Scott Berg's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Charles Lindbergh traces the aviator's life from his youth in Minnesota through the 1927 transatlantic flight that made him a global icon, the kidnapping and murder of his infant son, and his deeply controversial pre-World War II isolationism and sympathy for Nazi Germany. Berg draws on Lindbergh's private diaries and letters to present a complex portrait of a man who embodied American individualism and also its darkest political temptations. The biography restores Lindbergh's later achievements in conservation and aviation advocacy after his public rehabilitation.