The Life of Charles Lindbergh

Title: The Life of Charles Lindbergh
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The Life of Charles Lindbergh

"The life of an aviator seemed to me ideal. It involved skill. It brought adventure. It made use of the latest developments of science. Mechanical engineers were fettered to factories and drafting boards while pilots have the freedom of wind with the expanse of sky. There were times in an airplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God." - Charles A. Lindbergh, 1927 Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator …showed first 75 words of 938 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 938 total…The book would win a Pulitzer Prize the following year. Lindberg and his wife continued to fly, though mostly for pleasure. They moved to an island in Hawaii, where he spent the rest of his life. He became sick with cancer and would take his final flight in 1974, as he checked himself out of a New York Hospital and flew home to die, surrounded by friends and family. Charles Lindbergh died of cancer on August 26, 1974.

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