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Charles Lindbergh's autograph. Mounted, framed and supplied with coa.
At the age of 25, Lindbergh became, as A. Scott Berg amply demonstrates in one of the most important biographies of the decade, “the most celebrated living person ever to walk the earth.” Lindbergh, the first solo flier to cross the Atlantic, had anticipated and planned for every aspect of his historic 33-hour flight from New York to Paris, with the significant exception of his arrival. With characteristic modesty, he had assumed that since he was ahead of schedule, no one would be greeting him as he landed, and he hoped to find a fellow flier at the field who could help him get a ride into Paris, where he would find a cheap hotel. Instead, as he taxied on the landing strip, Lindbergh found that, as he famously recounted in the last line of his memoir of the flight, “the entire field ahead is covered with running figures!” From that moment on, Lindbergh’s life would be far more complicated than he ever wished or expected it to be.
Ironically, Lindbergh and his plane had survived the longest and most difficult flight in history (every previous attempt had ended in death) only to be threatened by the crowd that celebrated the feat. The stampede to meet him caused the greatest traffic jam in Paris history, and the throng swallowed “The Spirit of St. Louis,” Lindbergh’s tiny plane. It was, a witness recalled, “as if all the hands in the world are . . . trying to touch the new Christ and the New Cross is the Plane.” The adoration was both exuberant and violent–a combination that was to mark the public’s relationship with Lindbergh for the next 20 years. Souvenir hunters began to rip “The Spirit of St. Louis” apart, and Lindbergh was dragged out of the plane and carried about in a frenzy. Only the intercession of French military fliers prevented the most famous plane in world history from being destroyed and Lindbergh from being rapturously mauled.
Although Lindbergh himself was almost unbelievably courageous, honorable and honest, his story is not a bright and inspiring one, for more than anything else it illuminates the menace that accompanies adoration. Worshiped by the globe, Lindbergh was above all America’s hero, and in this country he was also prey to the public, the press, maniacs and criminals–even the Roosevelt administration. Although Lindbergh showed to the world his country’s best self, he also aroused within America many of its ugliest aspects.
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