Charles lindbergh biography reviews

Lindbergh
by A. Scott Berg
640 pages
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Published: September 1998
– Pulitzer Prize for Biography –

“Lindbergh” is A.

Scott Berg’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one of America’s most famous aviators. Berg is also the author of best-selling biographies of Woodrow Wilson, Max Perkins, Samuel Goldwyn and a somewhat controversial biography/memoir of Katharine Hepburn.

Berg is currently working on a biography of Thurgood Marshall.

In nearly every way, Charles Lindbergh’s life seems tailor-made for a riveting biography. Fortunately, A. Scott Berg is up to the challenge of memorializing the mesmerizing – and occasionally maddening – circumstances of Lindbergh’s seven decades as an aviator, scientist, victim, tone-deaf isolationist, cold-hearted companion and relentless wanderer.

Berg was the first biographer granted access to thousands of boxes of p