Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg HB/DJ Pulitzer Prize Winner 85 illusts FINE/VG+

Description: Lindbergh By A. Scott Berg G.P. Putnam's SonsNew York September 1998 Awarded the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.xii, 628 p.: Frontispiece, three in-text illustrations, and 40 unpaginated pages, containing 81 illustrations; 23.5 cm. (9.25 inches). Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title, light black paper over boards, with gilt-stamped, embellished front-cover initials of the subject. Glossy, illustrated black, white and gilt dust jacket, with front-section photograph of Lindbergh from the Lindbergh Picture Collection, Manuscript, and Archives, Yale University, and back-section photograph of A. Scott Berg, 1998 by Aloma. Includes Acknowledgments, Notes and Sources, Permissions, and Index. Black endpapers. First Edition, 11th Printing "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. National Book Award winner A. Scott Berg is the first and only writer to have been given unrestricted access to the massive Lindbergh archives - more than two thousand boxes of personal papers, including reams of unpublished letters and diaries - and to be allowed freely to interview Lindbergh's friends, colleagues, and family members, including his children and his widow, Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The result is a brilliant biography that clarifies a life long blurred by myth and half-truth. 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 fascinating, complex marriage with Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a relationship far from the storybook romance the public imagined, one filled with sudden joy and bitter darkness, and which forged her into one of the century's leading feminist voices. . . . In all, this is a most compelling story of a most significant life: the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg, this is at once Lindbergh the hero-and Lindbergh the man" ' [from the dust jacket] ISBN: 0399144498 Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages and photographs bright, clean, tight, and unmarked Dust Jacket is in Very Good Plus Condition: top edge of the spine lightly creased. Nice Copy! Copyright 2023 All text in this listing description is the sole property of Classic Books and Ephemera and may not be copied without permission from Classic Books and Ephemera. SHIPPING and HANDLING: The purchaser receives free media mail in the U.S. We ship all books in boxes, well protected, within 24 hours of the order (Monday - Saturday), always with tracking. We ship pamphlets, documents, broadsides, and booklets in rigid mailers, bagged and boarded, with added stiffener for protection, always with tracking and, where they are of light weight, the order is sent free within the U.S. by USPS Ground Advantage mail. We have been selling books and ephemera for about 21 years to satisfied customers on various venues, so buy with confidence. For international shipping costs see Ebay's Shipping and Handling section below (click on the country and then click Update for cost to a specific country). For expedited domestic or international shipping prices, please contact us. BUYERS OF MULTIPLE ITEMS RECEIVE FREE SHIPPING IN THE U.S. Payment Methods: Paypal is preferred, but not required. Ebay is also collecting state taxes where appropriate and will be paying those state taxes rather than the sellers. Guarantee: We guarantee that the book is as described or we will return the buyer's money, if we are notified by email within 24 hours of receipt of the book. ALSO SEE ON EBAY OUR FINE SELECTION OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND EPHEMERA IN OUR STORE, CLASSIC BOOKS AND EPHEMERA; CLICK ON THIS LINK: We use the condition terms established by AB Bookman's Weekly and now slightly refined by IOBA: As New/Fine, Near Fine(minor defects), Very Good (small signs of wear), Good (average used book), Fair (complete text, but may lack endpapers, half-title), Poor (complete text but soiled, loose hinges, etc.) For an explanation of terms commonly used in book descriptions, contact us.

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