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Ambassador to France Myron Herrick of the 25-year-old pilot, "the very embodiment of fearless, kindly, cultivated American youth-unspoiled, unspoilable." Lindbergh was offered a $1 million movie contract, another $1 million to go into vaudeville, and presents that ranged from a live monkey to a home in Flushing Meadows, N. Y. Most of the presents were declined or turned over to the Missouri Historical Society, and one of the few contracts he accepted was one to write his own story, We-the other person being his airplane...
...Lindbergh name was magic all over the world, and the extent of his fame is impossible to understand now, when celebrities are made daily on TV. If he sent shirts to the laundry, they were not sent back. If he wrote a check, it was never cashed. If he checked a hat, it was somehow lost. All became souvenirs, precious talismans of the other wise cynical Jazz...
...years after his flight, Lindbergh, now an aviation consultant, married Anne Morrow, the bright, pretty daughter of Dwight Morrow, a rich New York City banker who was then serving as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Anne was a writer, later destined for fame on her own, and together they settled down to a quiet, productive life in New Jersey. Peace was short-lived, however. In 1932, the Lindberghs' first and then only child, 20-month-old Charles Jr., was kidnaped from a second-floor nursery. Ten weeks later, the body was found in a shallow grave in some woods near...
Impressed by the progress of Nazi Germany's air machine, and equally appalled by the lack of preparedness in Britain and France, Lindbergh in 1941 joined America First, an isolationist group, in urging the U.S. to stay out of the war. Britain and France were doomed, he said, and Germany and the Soviet Union would eventually destroy each other. Though he immediately volunteered for service after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt would not forgive his earlier opposition to America's policy of helping the Allies, and he refused him a uniform. As a civilian consultant to the War Department...
Nonetheless, Lindbergh never recanted his isolationist position. While he was never an anti-Semite or a fascist, as some charged at the time, he remained appallingly insensitive to the true evils of the Hitler regime. "His self-confidence thickened into arrogance," said English Writer Harold Nicolson, an old friend. "His mind had been sharpened by fame and tragedy until it had become as hard, as metallic and as narrow as a chisel...