Charles Lindbergh: A Short Biography - Famed Aviator and Environmentalist
By Doug West
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The twenty-five-year old Charles A. Lindbergh climbed into his single-engine monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, and took off for Paris determined to win the $25,000 Orteig Prize promised to the first pilot to fly nonstop between New York and Paris. For the next thirty-three hours, he navigated through storms across the perilous Atlantic Ocean, news of his attempt had circled the globe, making him an international celebrity by the time he reached Paris. He returned to the United States a national hero, with a ticker-tape parade that drew millions, awarded every possible award from the Medal of Honor to Time’s "Man of the Year", commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp within months, and celebrated as the embodiment of a modern American. Follow the story of this bold young man as he journeys into manhood and the controversies that would cloud he sterling “hero” image.
Doug West
Doug West is a retired engineer, small business owner, and an experienced non-fiction writer with several books to his credit. His writing interests are general, with expertise in science, history, biographies, numismatics, and “How to” topics. Doug has a B.S. in Physics from the Missouri School of Science and Technology and a Ph.D. in General Engineering from Oklahoma State University. He lives with his wife and little dog “Millie” near Kansas City, Missouri.
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Charles Lindbergh - Doug West
Charles Lindbergh: A Short Biography
Famed Aviator and Environmentalist
By Doug West, Ph.D.
Charles Lindbergh: A Short Biography
Famed Aviator and Environmentalist
Copyright © 2017 Doug West
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Early Life
Chapter 2 - Spirit of St. Louis and the Orteig Prize
Chapter 3 - Scientist and Inventor
Chapter 4 – Crime of the Century
Chapter 5 – Prelude to War
Chapter 6 – World War II
Chapter 7 – The Second Half
Chapter 8 – European Family
Chapter 9 – Lindbergh’s Legacy
Timeline
Acknowledgments
References and Further Reading
About the Author
Preface
Welcome to the book, Charles Lindbergh: A Short Biography. This book is part of the 30 Minute Book Series and, as the name of the series implies, if you are an average reader this book will take around 30 minutes to read. Since this short book is not meant to be an all-encompassing biography of Charles Lindbergh, you may want to know more about this man and his accomplishments. To help you with this, there are several good references at the end of this book. Thank you for purchasing this book. I hope you enjoy your time reading about this legendary aviator.
Doug West
July 2017
Introduction
One way to gain an understanding of a person is to look at the names they are given by different people in their lives. Charles A. Lindbergh was no different, as he was called many things by those who knew him and by those who didn’t — some of the names were enlightening or amusing while others were dark and sinister. Slim
was the name his friends called Lindbergh as a young man; at six feet two inches tall and all of 150 pounds, that name seemed to fit. As he grew, he learned to fly an airplane and while barnstorming across the middle of America, they started to call him Daredevil Lindbergh.
In the 1920s, if you were brave enough, or maybe foolish enough to be a wing walker on a World War I era bi-plane during inverted flight, you truly deserved the title of daredevil.
Lindbergh rose to world renown at only 25 years of age when he entered an international aviation contest with a $25,000 prize to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop; previous unsuccessful attempts had cost the pilots their lives. Undeterred by the danger, Lindbergh set out from New York in his custom-built mono-plane for his flight to Paris on a mud soaked runway in the early dawn hours, with four sandwiches in his lunch box. Nearly a day and a half later he arrived in Paris, France, completely exhausted and