Bestselling author and National Book Awardwinner A. Scott Berg is the first and only writer to be given unrestricted access to the massive Lindbergh archives--more than two thousand boxes of personal papers， including reams of unpublished letters and diaries--and to be allowed freely to interview Lindbergh s friends， colleagues， and family members， including his children and his widow， Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The result is a brilliant biography that clarifies a life long blurred by myth and half-truth. From the moment he landed in Paris on May 21， 1927， Lindbergh found himself thrust on an odyssey for which he was ill-prepared--becoming the first modern media superstar， deified and demonized many times over in a single lifetime. Berg casts dramatic new light on the lonely， sometimes twisted childhood that formed the aviator s character; the astonishing transatlantic flight and thrilling， then overwhelming aftermath; the controversies surrounding the trial of his son s kidnapper， Lindbergh s fascination with Hitler s Germany and his leadership of America First; his remarkable unsung work in the fields of medical research， rocketry， anthropology， and conservation; and， at the heart of it all， his fascinating， complex marriage to Anne Morrow Lindbergh， a relationship filled with sudden joy and bitter darkness. In all， it is a most compelling story of a most significant life--the most private of public figures finally revealed with a sweep and detail never before possible. In the skilled hands of A. Scott Berg， this is Lindbergh the hero--and Lindbergh the man.