Author: Hunter, T. Willard,
Title: The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh: another dimension.
Description: Lanham, MD, Madison Books, (1993). VG in VG DJ. Still one of the most popular attractions at the Smithsonian Institution much is known about the Spirit of St. Louis airplane. but not so much is known about the spirit of the man who flew it. The public's reception of him took on the aspects of a vast religious revival, wrote a book editor. For the first time a Harvard theologian says that "Lindbergh changed the reputation of human nature." The pilot's character immensely magnified the achievement. His modesty and courage became legendary. Will Rogers wrote, "People hadn't read clean stuff in so long they just went crazy over him." The author Hunter, a personal acquaintance of Lindbergh, weighs the character element of the Lindbergh phenomenon, the Swedish heritage, family influences, his "lone eagle" childhood, attitudes toward religion, his early worship of science and later alarm at the global destruction threatened by "materialistic science", and his views of the role of force in both preserving and and toppling civilization. The author explores Lindbergh's U.S. intelligence activities in Germany before WWII, his struggle against American participation, his concern for the plight of German Jews, the Nazi-sympathy charges, the Goering medal, and why he experienced such a devastating fall from grace. Laid in insert with photos of Anne and Charles Lindbergh as well as a writeup of Betty Fowler, an elementary school teacher in Vicksburg, Miss., who was awarded the Anne Morrow Lindbergh Aerospace Educastor Aeard by the Women in Aerospace (WIA) professional society, because she demonstrated in her classroom aerospace contributions and for extending Mrs. Lindbergh's vision of earth and life as exressed in her book, Earth Shine.

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