Historian David Hamilton has written a new biography of Charles Lindbergh.
Released on May 21, 2025, to coincide with the 98th anniversary of Lindbergh’s historic transatlantic flight, “The Enigmatic Aviator: Charles Lindbergh, Revisited,” attempts to set the record straight on Lindbergh, best remembered for his famous solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927 and the kidnapping and murder of his 20-month-old son in 1932, according to Hamilton.
Though once hailed as an American hero, Lindbergh is now widely deemed an anti-Semite, white supremacist, and Nazi sympathizer — thanks mainly to his characterization in The Plot Against America, Philip Roth’s 2004 best-selling historical novel, according to officials with the book’s publisher, Partick Press.
Drawing on research into the source material, including Lindbergh’s archive at Yale, Hamilton “offers a fresh and objective assessment of the strengths and weakness of a talented, complex man who was remarkably intertwined in many defining events of the 20th century,” according to officials.
“Hamilton’s motivation for writing the book is to get justice for Lindbergh by exposing the controversies, misinformation, and pure fiction behind his recently woefully tarnished reputation,” officials say. “In the process, Hamilton also sheds light on Lindbergh’s lesser-known contributions to aviation, medical science, conservation, and America.”
While the new book recounts the events that made Lindbergh a celebrity, it also goes beyond what most readers already know — or think they do — about the famous aviator, according to the publisher.
Some of the things covered in the book include:
- Lindbergh’s research on organ preservation as a volunteer laboratory assistant for the Nobel Prize-winning transplant surgeon-scientist Alexis Carrel.
- He was the first military insider and thought leader to warn the West about the danger from the German Luftwaffe.
- Tensions between Lindbergh and FDR were fueled by Lindbergh’s vocal anti-interventionism in the European conflict and FDR’s fear of Lindbergh as a credible presidential candidate.
- Lindbergh worked secretly in the Cold War Air Force in the late 1940s after the FBI cleared him of any disloyalty.
- Lindbergh’s devotion to maintaining three secret families in Germany as part of his goal, which he had shared with his wife Anne, to father a dozen children.
- Lindbergh’s work as an early conservationist in the mid-1950s and his later commitment to saving whales in the southern Pacific and other declining animal species in the Philippines.
The book, now available on Amazon, is priced at $22.
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