Word: lindberghism
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...factories folded up. The year slapped a brusque eviction notice on President Herbert Hoover and handed New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt a ticket to what turned into the longest White House tenure in history. It awarded triumph to Amelia Earhart as the first woman to match Charles A. Lindbergh's feat of a solo flight across the Atlantic. 1932 also brought cruel tragedy to Lindbergh and his wife: their infant child was kidnaped and murdered -the first of the century's repetitious proofs that even heroes are not immune to lethal violence...
NONFICTION: A.E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet, Richard Perceval Graves ∙ China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ∙ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich ∙ Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh...
NONFICTION: China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ∙ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ∙ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich ∙ Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ Thirty Seconds, MichaelJ. Arlen ∙ War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh...
NONFICTION: China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston •Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear •Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich •Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn •Thirty Seconds, Michael J. Arlen •War Within and Without, Anne Morrow Lindbergh...
With stubborn integrity, the Lindberghs first hold to their beliefs, then gradually join the main currents of American thought. A brilliant procession of notables streams through the pages. Here are the internationalists and the noninterventionists: Founding Father Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, certain that England is finished; William Randolph Hearst, "that gray and lifeless mask"; W.H. Auden, "loose from the world and alone, suspended in space." What remains just out of sight is the relentless dilation of every Lindbergh move, the echoes of the kidnaping and murder of the couple's first child, and the inability of the great, silent pilot...