Charles Lindbergh

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Charles Lindbergh
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844551.book-part-039

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Abstract

In the first half of the twentieth century, few Americans were more famous than Charles Lindbergh. His solo nonstop flight from Long Island to Paris in 1927 made him a worldwide celebrity and opened up the possibility of safe long-distance air travel to a broad range of people. While he was a celebrity, Lindbergh was also an intensely private person. His eldest son’s kidnapping and death forced him to avoid the limelight even more. Lindbergh’s pre–Pearl Harbor opposition to U.S. entry into World War II made him the subject of controversy and, in the views of some, a threat to American security. In his later years, Lindbergh faded from public view and died in Hawaii in 1974.

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