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...Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, Lindbergh...
Through 1,038 pages of this chronicle, which begins with America's drift into the war he deplored, Lindbergh has strewn fine revelatory glimpses of himself-a self often at odds with the public figure molded from his deeds and his legend...
When a dog died-one that had faithfully guarded the Lindbergh babies ever since the kidnaping and death of Charles Jr.-Lindbergh insisted on digging the grave himself. "It seemed an obligation that I, personally, must fulfill, and in which I could not let anyone else take part." Once, to ensure the arrival on deadline of a manuscript by his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, he crawled out of bed to retype it for her, finishing at 6 o'clock in the morning...
...Lindbergh of these journals is a man so sensitive and perceptive that he studies with understanding the eyes of caged animals in a zoo, and yet so insensitive and unperceiving that he fails to grasp that there was anything wrong in openly baiting American Jews. Herbert Hoover shared Lindbergh's view that the Roosevelt Administration, Jews and Anglophiles were deliberately leading the nation toward World War II. But when he chided Lindbergh in 1941 for saying so publicly Lindbergh was uncomprehending. He still...
Quoted Scriptures. What the book mainly reveals is a keen and wide-ranging intelligence that is also peculiarly restricted. Not a single entry recants Lindbergh's frequently expressed overall admiration of Nazi Germany. Nor does his rigid rectitude permit him, even today, to entertain the possibility that America's involvement in World War II was the result of anything but choice. Lindbergh has often been accused of having been singularly unmoved by a postwar visit to a German concentration camp. Not so. "Here was a place," he wrote, "where men and life and death had reached the lowest...