Mosley leonard lindbergh a biography on martin

Charles Lindbergh is one of those personalities where, I think, the generation gap most tells. I knew the name, that he was an early aviation hero, that he generated a fair amount of controversy by his isolationist (verging on pro-Nazi) stance during WW2 and the famous case of the 'Lindbergh baby', the kidnapping and death of his baby son - but that was about the sum total of my knowledge.

His was a personality very removed from me, a name in the history books, little more.

I can't say I came away especially liking Charles Lindbergh. Mosley admits right at the start that Lindbergh was once a great hero of his, and there is a definite sense of almost wistfulness in these pages, a sadness and regret at the tarnishing of a hero - for that is exactly what happened to Lindbergh.

He was the golden child, the poster boy of aviation, but his naivete, wilful blinkeredness and right-wing viewpoints during WW2 alienated great swathes of the American po