Charles A. Lindbergh

Douglas Brinkley | June/July 2003

The Model T Ford made the world we live in. On the 100th anniversary of the company Henry Ford founded, his biographer Douglas Brinkley tells how.

"I will build a motor car for the great multitude,” Henry Ford proclaimed to the public when he announced the machine that would change America and indeed the world.

Weeping at Lindy's Grave in Maui

Harry Miles Muheim | May/June 1997

The trouble with having (and being) a hero

Charles A. Lindbergh, who vaulted to international fame 70 years ago this May by taking off alone one night and flying from New York to Paris in his single-engine monoplane, is buried in a small churchyard on the eastern end of the island of Maui in Hawaii.

Cols. Lindbergh and Mustard

Geoffrey C. Ward | April 1994

Want to write about a famous crime? Why not start out by totally ignoring character and motive?

The presumption of innocence is carried a very long way by the American reading public, at least when it comes to celebrated crimes. Despite the weight of the evidence against them, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, and James Earl Ray, all have their dogged defenders in print.

Autobiography of Values

Barbara Klaw | April/May 1978

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The Story Of The Century

David Davidson | February 1976

On the raw, gusty night of March 1, 1932, in the Sourland Hills of New Jersey, the twenty-month-old son of Charles A. Lindbergh and the former Anne Morrow, their first-born, was kidnapped from his nursery.

Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc.

George E. Hopkins | December 1975

New York to Los Angeles in an unheard-of 48 hours! And what a way to go—luxuriously appointed planes, meals served aloft, and a window seat for every passenger

It was midsummer of 1929, and all seemed right with the world. Herbert Hoover was in the White House, riding high on a tide of prosperity and popularity.

How Not To Fly The Atlantic

Richard Montague | April 1971

A few days after Lindberg's crossing, the second flight across the Atlantic carried the first passenger and was lucky to make it to Germany.

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