Books
February, 1978
Charles Lindbergh, elite aviator, was the ultimate 20th Century dilettante. He comes across in his Autobiography of Values (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) as a would-be Renaissance man whose one great feat made it possible for him to proceed through the rest of his charmed life as a "consultant." After dinner in Berlin with Hermann Goring, Lindbergh advised the Roosevelt Administration on German air strength; he consulted for Pan American on new air routes; he beseeched Roosevelt not to go...
