H. W. Brands has written a historical thriller — hard to do when we all know the outcome of the story. He succeeds because for much of his book he is a silent witness, allowing President Franklin ...
and Charles Lindbergh, the famed aviator who became the most prominent speaker at rallies of the America First Committee, the leading isolationist organization of the period. Brands minimizes his ...
Nashville, Terre Haute and Indianapolis front. Kidnapping case in a class by itself is that of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Credit for the capture of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in that case ...
Partially inspired by the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son, Agatha Christie’s ingenious murder mystery, “Murder on the Orient Express,” was first published in 1934. A best-seller, in ...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh endured quietly Charles Augustus Lindbergh’s fame, the tragedy of a kidnapping, her husband’s descent from his pedestal of public divinity, and the publication of two ...