Probably the most startling revelation is a brief but candid discussion of Anne's affair in the late 1950s with a New Jersey doctor, which helped assuage her need to vent emotions in a way her buttoned-up husband found insupportable. Lindbergh's wife, the writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh, gave Berg unrestricted access to her husband's and her own voluminous personal papers-and he made good use of them to assess both the couple's relationship and their activities. in which he felt comfortable,' writes Berg with characteristic perceptiveness. 'Aviation created a brotherhood of casual acquaintances. The son of ill-matched parents who separated when he was 6, he was painfully shy and emotionally guarded. Scott Berg's thorough new biography of the aviator suggests that despite the public scrutiny that accompanied his every move until his death in 1974, Lindbergh remained an intensely private man.

But I didn't find much insight into what made Lindbergh a great, and yes, a puzzle of a man.Ĭharles Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris captured the imagination of a postwar generation hungry for heroes, and cemented an exalted spot for the 25-year-old pilot from Minnesota in the collective American imagination. You could probably get a lot of 'hard' data out of this biography. Berg tries so hard to be dispassionate about his subject, that his writing lacks any passion at all. I think, though, what I missed most, compared to the Diary/Letters of 'Bring Me a Unicorn', and the following collections, 'War Within and Without', 'The Flower and the Nettle', is that *Lindbergh* essentially lacks a human voice, the voice of CAL, himself. Lindbergh's daugher, Reeve, writes about meeting her half-siblings and how it felt to learn of her father's infidelity. For instance, he actually had families with two separate German women. Since reading the first third of this book, I have since learned that it actually misses out on a lot of CAL's life.

However, after several attempts, I could not bring myself to finish this dry biography of what was a very interesting, and multidimensional life story. I read Anne Morrow Lindbergh's memoir, 'Send me a Unicorn', and that got me hooked on this fascinating couple. I have been intrigued by CAL's life for many years. Anne Morrow Lindbergh had hired Berg, prior to her death, giving him access to records involving CAL's history, with the stipulation that the biography not be compiled or written until after AML's death. Scott Berg, is the only 'official' biography of Charles Lindbergh.

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