Charles A. Lindbergh: Lone Eagle

by Walter L. Hixson and Hixson, Walter L. Hixson, Walter L.

Book Overview

In the 1920s America yearned for a hero. They had great baseball players and actors, but they longed for a seminal achievement -- authentically heroic in its defiance of the odds. The Lone Eagle... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321090934
• ISBN13: 9780321090935
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Small, Easy to Read, Well Written

This is part of Longman's series of American Biography. They are short, with a reading level set for high school students in American History. It is a little surprising to me that the average high school student doesn't know Lindbergh. To those of us born before World War II, he was a famous person. But then again, his famous flight across the Atlantic was as far away to the modern high schooler as the Spanish-American war was to my generation. Mr. Hixson does an excellent job of describing Lindbergh's early flying of the mail, the solo flight across the atlantic and his personal life. Of particular concern to today's student was Lindbergh's attitude towards World War II. Lindbergh was a prominent member of the American First group that strenuously wanted to keep America out of the war. He was strongly condemned. I particularly liked Lindbergh's comment: 'I have always believed that every American cieizen had the right and duty to state his opinion in peace and to fight for his country in war.' Lindbergh was not in the military, but did serve as an aviation consultant in the South Pacific. He flew missions against the Japanese and developed new techniques to extend the range of American fighters, particularly the P-38.