Lindbergh

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: C.A. Lindbergh was a very complex individual- no few words could properly decribe the man, his wife and his multitude of accomplishments. Scott Berg does an almost perfect job of showing the many facets of Lindbergh- If you have an interest in Lindbergh, or even a view of the times in which he lived, I highly recommend this book. Hey, just get it -you won't be disappointed!

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Summary: Too many typos!
Review: Why did it have to start with a number of typos? Annoying! It makes you distrust the quality right in the beginning and your mind keeps looking for more mistakes. The book is a bit of a rehash.

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Summary: Very interesting and detailed biography.
Review: I expected to "bog down" in the middle of this biography, but I didn't. It kept my interest continuously. I have read several previous biographies of Charles Lindbergh, but this one seemed fresh--not just a repeat of previous information. Since the author had/has access to the Lindbergh papers, I wish he would write a similar biography of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--I'd love to read it.

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Summary: An excellent book about an amazing man.
Review: This book is a compelling tale of an American hero. This is the tale of the first man to become a world wide figure. Berg does a n excellent job of portraying Lindbergh's oddities into a well thought out journey into a man's life. The ending of the book is enough to make you cry.

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Summary: engrossing account of a most enigmatic personality
Review: If Berg had written only of Lindbergh's antecedents and the flight to Paris with the world-wide adulation which followed, this still would have been a first-rate story. We are also given a most readable account of Lindbergh the husband, father, inventor, misguided statesman, and idiosyncratic individualist ---an engrossing read. This compliments the diaries and letters of his wife, and leaves the reader wondering how much she chose not to include. The reader who knows only of Lindbergh's flight and the kidnapping will learn much more about this multi-faceted man and his family.

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Summary: Best work on Lindbergh yet
Review: This the most thoroughly comprehensive study of Lindbergh, I have yet seen. I would combine it however with Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values" for a picture of the man, his life and vision that is unsurpassed.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: An astounding chronicle of one of the most captivating figures in world history. It is a bit long but then it has to be, truly worthwhile read.

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Summary: Super star,Super-villan?,a search for life's meanining.
Review: I grew up in the boyhood home town of C.A.L. I think I can see where his head was at. I find it amazing that so much of the world focused in on this unprepared person to become it's first "super-star". Anyone under that microscope will have flaws. I am astounded to see the world still lacks the understanding to see the need for real issues to be debated but instead focuses in on what "sells papers". Lindberg's concern was the progress of humanity within the confines of this earth. He had a vision into the future. True, it was blurred at times. But C.A.L. could also ask if technology was really and answer, or must humanity dig deep within itself to find answers? Well worth the time to read for a sense of history, humanity, technology and spirituality.

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Summary: Not Definitive but A Good Read
Review: A. Scott Berg's "Lindbergh" is written from the point of view of, say, a neighbor, or a close acquaintance. From this vantage, Lindbergh remains fascinating, heroic, enigmatic, and unrevealed. It is as Lindbergh would have wished. Berg writes with sympathy but that sympathy comes from family papers and interviews, not from an understanding of Lindbergh's inner life. Lindbergh was a complex figure--too complex for his wife and children and much too complex for a biographer who never met him. Yet Berg assembles Lindbergh's story smoothly from previously private documents and gives us a thoughtful summary of his life. This is material for further analysis, and certainly fodder for a future, more psychological look at Lindbergh. I couldn't stop reading, and I couldn't stop reviewing the story in my mind and trying to refit the pieces. Lindbergh's marriage is especially fascinating. From the moment he met Anne Morrow he tugged at the strings of commitment. They were engaged after their second date, then he disappeared for a month. They spent their honeymoon in a boat speeding along the Atlantic coast from one remote island to the next, never still for long. Lindbergh followed a similar pattern all his life. Anne declared herself a "widow" in 1959, fourteen years before he actually died, because he was never home. In that year he flew to Europe eleven times; in another year, on various junkets, he circled the globe five times. What is missing in this book is the great silent account of what he was DOING on all these trips. I want to know what he read on the airplanes, what he ate, where he stayed, how he passed his time abroad, who he met, how he entertained himself. Lindbergh wrote no letters to his family during these trips; nothing is recorded. Who did he spend time with during these constant journeys? Tucked unobstrusively into this volume is the suggestion that both partners in the Lindbergh marriage had affairs, and that both benefited; perhaps the marriage benefited. Lindbergh abused his wife and his children by neglect. He missed the high school graduation of a son and the marriage of another. He frequently told his wife she was a failure, and he criticized his children destructively. His rages, arising from displaced satisfaction with his own behavior, suggest guilt for events that remain hidden in Berg's account. Lindbergh is the greatest hero of our century. He remains so after you read this biography. He did what he wanted with his life and he was wily enough to keep it private. --Linda Donelson, author of "Out of Isak Dinesen: Karen Blixen's untold story"

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Summary: This is a terrible book.
Review: This so-called biography is tedious, redundant, and saddled with flowery writing. It has to be the over-hyped book of the year. It tells more about A. Scott Berg's lack of writing skills and investigatory ability than anything new about Lindy. Anyone who praises this book is simply a victim of "the emperor's new clothes syndrome" -- they're either friends of the "author" or too narrow-minded to realize they're praising trash passing as biography. Good for a doorstop and that's it.