Lindbergh A. Scott Berg (Audio Cassette)

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Lindbergh A. Scott Berg (Audio Cassette)

A life of one of the most legendary, controversial, and enigmatic figures in American history.

Read by Eric Stoltz

Running Time: Approx. 6 Hours

From one of America's most acclaimed biographers, 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access to the massive Lindbergh archives - more than two thousand boxes of personal papers, including reams of unpublished letters and diaries - and to be allowed to freely interview Lindbergh's friends, colleagues, and family members, including his children and his widow, Anne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, defied and demonized many times over in a single lifetime.  Berg casts dramatic new light on Lindbergh's childhood; his astonishing flight; the kidnapping of his son, which has been called "The Crime of the Century;" Lindbergh's fascination with Hitler's Germany; and his unsung work in his later years.

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.  This is at once Lindbergh the hero and Lindbergh the man.

A. Scott Berg is the author of the bestselling books Max Perkins: Editor of Genius, which won the National Book Award, and Goldwyn: A Biography, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in Los Angeles.

Eric Stoltz is an actor/producer whose films include Mask, Pulp Fiction, The Waterdance, Little Women, and Rob Roy. New York stage credits include Our Town, Three Sisters, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Glass Menagerie, and Arms and the Man. (Abridgment approved by the Author)

Abridged on 4 Cassettes

Random House