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Kidnap, by George Waller. This meticulous account adds nothing to what is known about the Lindbergh kidnaping, but it summarizes well the bizarre, tragic events of crime and capture...
...began a case that became, as no other crime ever did. a national nightmare. It had been nearly five years since "the Lone Eagle" had made his flight, and gangly, shy Charles Lindbergh was still an authentic, legendary U.S. hero-a prop-age astronaut. In an excellent piece of historical journalism, George Waller, sometime magazine editor, has vividly reconstructed both the facts of the case and the spirit of the era. Although the torrentially reported crime could scarcely be more familiar to readers over 40. the author's retracing of the events builds up an effective ersatz suspense that...
Meticulously, the author describes how Condon met a wiry, nervous young German immigrant who called himself "John." With Lindbergh's approval, Condon gave him $50,000, mostly in marked gold certificates, receiving in exchange a note about the baby's supposed whereabouts that proved completely phony. Five weeks later, the decomposed body of the child was discovered five miles from the Lindbergh home...
...Charles Lindbergh, he was convinced that Hauptmann had, for whatever reason, taken and killed his child...
...mind, as Author Waller suggests, millions of others shared Haupt-mann's guilt. "They," he had told his wife when it happened, "have stolen our baby." To Lindbergh, "they" meant the clamoring public, seeking to haul down the wall of privacy that he sought desperately to erect about his family life...