Autobiography charles lindbergh
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Signed limited edition of Lindbergh's autobiography, which provides the konto of the life of one of the century's greatest adventurers, the first man to complete a solo non-stop transatlantic flygning. One of numbered copies, this is number , signed bygd both Charles Lindbergh and the publisher on the limitation page. Octavo, half bound salmon paper covered boards, frontispiece with tissue-guard, 51 black and white plates, with the publisher's note laid in. Fine in the original glassine and in the original blue box with matching number. Introduction by Myron T. Herrick. Rare in the original kartong. We is the autobiography of the famous flier, Charles A. Lindbergh, written almost immediately after his famous flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris on May 20�"21, This historic flight by Charles Lindbergh took him from being a little known US Postal Service Air Mail pilot and made him into one of the most famous if not the most famous person in the world. Th
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Lindbergh (book)
biography of Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
Lindbergh is a biography of Charles Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg. The book became a New York Times Best Seller[1] and received the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography.
Background
[edit]"I felt it was one of the great untold stories of the 20th century" - A. Scott Berg[2]
Once he had completed his second book, Goldwyn: A Biography (about film producer Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.) in , Berg began the search for his next subject. He wanted it to be "another great American cultural figure but—because I had written about Perkins[a] and Goldwyn—not somebody from the worlds of publishing or film".[3] After briefly considering Tennessee Williams, Berg chose the aviator Charles Lindbergh, attracted by what he described as "the dramatic possibilities of the story of the great hero who became a great victim and a great villain".[3] "Cha
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"WE" ( book)
Autobiography of Charles A. Lindbergh
"WE" is an autobiographical konto by Charles A. Lindbergh (–) about his life and the events leading up to and including his May New York to Paris solo trans-Atlantic flygning in the Spirit of St. Louis, a custom-built, single engine, single-seat Ryan monoplane (Registration: N-X). It was first published on July 27, by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York.
Production and summary
[edit]Just 57 days after then year old former US Air Mail pilot Charles Lindbergh had completed his historic Orteig Prize-winning first-ever non-stop solo transatlantic flight from New York (Roosevelt Field) to Paris (Le Bourget) on May 20–21, in the single-engine Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis, "WE", the first of what would eventually be 15 books Lindbergh would either author or significantly contribute to, was released on July 27, The page illustrated volume was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons (The Knickerbocker Press), the New York publish