In the 1930s, as a consultant to Pan American and TWA, he pioneered routes for the fledgling airline industry. In 1927, Lindbergh won instant fame as the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. Putnam's, the 640-page Lindbergh is the first authorized biography of the famous aviator, whose now 93-year-old widow, the author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, granted Berg access to all her husband's papers and to hers as well, telling him, "You can't write about Charles without writing about me." Supplemented by interviews with family members and others whose lives transected Lindbergh's, this wealth of material - contained in some 2,000 boxes, mostly at Yale - enabled Berg to write with greater detail and accuracy than any of Lindbergh's previous biographers.īerg, who has also chronicled the careers of book editor Maxwell Perkins and film mogul Samuel Goldwyn, says he enjoys "painting on big canvases." He needed one for a life so full and at times controversial. Scott Berg '71 admires Charles Lindbergh, the subject of the most recent of his three biographies of major 20th-century Americans, as a man who "blazed his own trail, went his own way, followed his own stars," and "packed seven or eight lives into one lifetime." Scott Berg '71 confronts the remarkable - and still controversial - flier, "a great lens for observing the American century"
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