Charles Lindbergh: A Short Biography: Famed Aviator and Environmentalist
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Series: 30 Minute Book, Book 23
ISBN13: 9781976333859
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 23 2017
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.15 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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 became 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 the sterling hero image.
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