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Under a Wing - Reeve Lindbergh
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In Under a Wing Reeve pays heartfelt tribute to her extraordinary
parents while viewing them with unflinching candour. The result is
this fascinating and memorable book.
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“We Lindberghs still know ourselves best as a tribe: close-knit, self-
enclosed and self-defining, always prepared to be besieged by
invisible forces upwelling from the past - the famous flight, the
kidnapping, the controversy over our father’s isolationist stance
just before the Second World War.”
The world knew Charles Lindbergh as a daring aviator, Pulitzer Prize-
winning author and notorious isolationist. His landmark feat of
crossing the Atlantic in his single-engine plane, The Spirit of St
Louis, assured him from the outset of colossal and enduring fame. His
wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was also famous, the author of the
bestselling Gift from the Sea and other novels. That celebrity status
and the tragic loss of their firstborn infant son in a highly
publicized kidnapping shadowed them for the rest of their lives.
Fiercely protective of their children, they worked hard to remove
themselves from public life, an effort so successful that many are
unaware that there were more Lindbergh children after the first tragic
Here, their youngest daughter Reeve, in a deeply moving, candid and
powerful memoir describes what it was like to grow up as a Lindbergh
under a wing of a stern, strong and eccentric father. Methodical and
exacting as an aviator he applied the same discipline to parenting,
inspiring both love and fear.
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