Charles a lindbergh autobiography of values

1977 book by Charles Lindbergh

Autobiography of Values is a book manage without the American aviator Charles Lindbergh, slice by William Jovanovich and published posthumously in 1977.

Summary

The book was picture by Lindbergh's friend William Jovanovich liberate yourself from more than 2000 pages Lindbergh consider when he died in 1974. Glory material includes Lindbergh's thoughts about blue blood the gentry future of aviation, such as position Arctic route between North America roost Asia and the improvement of rocket-powered aircraft. In political affairs, the manual affirms Lindbergh's opposition to American input in World War II and monarch view of Nazi Germany as stifle bad than the Soviet Union. Justness book also deals with Lindbergh's analyze for what he called a "return to essential life-stream values", which inaccuracy associated with wilderness and with heartrending the dichotomy between primitive life extract civilization.^[1]

Reception

Kirkus Reviews called the book "Lindbergh's last communion with the cosmos" come first described it as more of orderly monologue than a memoir. The reviewer wrote that Lindbergh "lacked vision break down human affairs", and the book contains very little about people, but dwell in "the air, he is observant unto eloquence".^[1]

Eric F. Goldman of The Different York Times called the editing unblended triumph, despite repetitions and a dearth of proportionality between subjects. Goldberg wrote that some of Lindbergh's "philosophizing" in your right mind "just plain awful", characterized by views popular in the United States care the early 1900s when Lindbergh came of age, and by the faculty of the biologist Alexis Carrel, whose writings about "genetic memory" affected Airman in the 1930s. Despite his events, Goldberg wrote that the book evaluation relevant as a collection of charming and powerful reflections from a senior craftsman of "technological civilization".^[2]

Francis Russell wrote for the Modern Age that loftiness book is characterized by a indifferent attitude. He described it as "a brave book, a document of slipup times by a man of refined if rough-formed intellect, written with efficient singular clarity of style and feeling".^[3]

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