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...SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS (561 pp.]-Charles A. Lindbergh-Scribners...
...Spirit of St. Louis, a Book-of-the-Month Club choice for September, Airman Lindbergh. 51, gives a full and earnest account of how he planned and piloted his plane to international fame...
...define their age in a lifetime; Charles Augustus Lindbergh did it in 33½ hours. When The Spirit of St. Louis hopped the Atlantic nonstop from New York to Paris on May 20-21, 1927, the Age of Flight finally came of age. Nowadays, when any weekday finds hundreds of passengers casually making the trans atlantic crossing, the drama is gone. Lind bergh's great and simple epic was that he was the first to fly the Atlantic alone, the first to fly without stop from the U.S. to Europe...
Each unassuming page shows why the dizzy decade of Teapot Dome, bathtub gin, flappers, crooners and "It" girls found in him an untarnished symbol of its better self. No Antoine de Saint Exupery, no philosopher of flight, Lindbergh rarely rises to poetic altitudes and sometimes drones on in childhood reveries and me chanical details. But at its exciting best, his book keeps the reader cockpit-close to a rare adventure...
Obscure Mail Pilot. The idea that he could fly the Atlantic came to Lindbergh in his DH4 biplane one moonlit night over Peoria, Ill., while he was flying the mail from St. Louis to Chicago. It is September 1926, and he is not yet 25, but four solid years of barnstorming and army air service have given him an air of quiet confidence that a group of aviation-mind ed St. Louis businessmen cannot resist...