title: An American Hero: The True Story of Charles A. Lindbergh
author:  Barry Denenberg 
description: Denenberg scrutinizes Lindbergh's Nazi sympathies and the kidnapping of his infant son in this "hard-hitting and ambitious biography [which] challenges readers to question how men who shape their times are in turn shaped themselves," said PW in a starred review. Ages 10-up.-- challenges readers to question how men who shape their times are in turn shaped themselves," said PW in a starred review. Ages 10-up. <br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **“Charles Lindbergh’s is the ultimate American life, and A. Scott Berg’s new
  biography is the ultimate, and understated, exploration of that life …** in an
  astonishing biography of a man who personified the future tense, no sentence
  is overwritten, no passage overwrought … a volume that captures not only the
  heroism but the anguish of Lindbergh—the haunting loneliness of being what
  Berg called ‘the most celebrated living person ever to walk the earth.’”
  
  
  — _Boston Sunday Globe_
  
  
  “A biography that will be one of the publishing events of the year … one of
  the most extraordinary lives of the 20th century.”
  
  
  — _Vanity Fair_
  
  
  “Superb.”
  
  
  — _Time_
  
  
  “Berg’s narrative is brisk and unhysterical, well-suited to his subject … [a]
  vivid emotional portrait of Lindbergh.”
  
  
  — _San Jose Mercury News_
  
  
  “The most outstanding piece of nonfiction that I have read this year … Berg
  does a spectacular job of establishing why Lindbe