Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg

"From one of America's most acclaimed biographers, author of the bestselling lives of Maxwell Perkins and Samuel Goldwyn, here at last is the definitive life of one of the most legendary, controversial, and enigmatic figures in American history -- Charles A. Lindbergh. From the moment he landed in Paris on May 21, 1927, Lindbergh found himself thrust upon an odyssey for which he was ill prepared -- the first modern media superstar, deified and demonized many times over in a single lifetime. Berg casts dramatic new light on the lonely, sometimes twisted childhood that formed his character; the astonishing flight and thrilling, then overwhelming aftermath; the controversies surrounding the trial of his son's accused kidnapper; the storm over Lindbergh's fascination with Hitler's Germany and over his active role in the isolationist America First movement; and his remarkable unsung work devoted to medical research, rocketry, anthropology, and conservation. At the heart of it all is his fas