'WE' is the autobiography of the famous flier, Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), written almost immediately after his famous flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris on May 20-21, 1927.
This historic flight took Lindbergh from being a little known US Postal Service Air Mail pilot, into one of the most famous aviators in the world. The main impetus for the flight was the $25,000 prize offered by the French-born New York hotelier, Raymond Orteig, who offered the prize to be given to any top pilot to make the first successful nonstop flight, in either direction, between New York City and Paris.
The book, soon translated into most major languages, moved to the top of best-seller lists, with more than 650,000 copies sold in the first year, and earned Lindbergh more than $250,000. It's publication coincided with the start of Lindbergh's three-month tour of the United States in his aircraft "The Spirit Of St. Louis", on behalf of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Lindbergh was seen in person by more than 30 million Americans, a quarter of the nation's then population, and the country soon became obsessed with him and his accomplishment.
The highly publicized tour and book promotion covered 22,350-miles, and he visited 82 cities in all 48 states, while delivering 147 speeches and riding 1,290 miles in local parades. Alas, the resulting fame & fortune also probably gave impetus to the March, 1932, kidnapping and murder of Lindbergh's infant son, Charles Jr.
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Buccaneer Books, Inc., is a specialty publisher of high-quality fiction and non-fiction reprints, located in Cutchogue NY.
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Buccaneer Books, NY, 1991.
Buccaneer Books 1st Edition.
Library Binding.
Fine copy.
Dark blue cloth, gilt letters. Minor spine bumping at the head, corners are sharp. Crisp white pages w/o markings. All gilt is bright. As New, still in shrink-wrap. Gift quality. 368 pages.
Product code: WE, top by Charles A. Lindbergh. Buccaneer Books 1st Edition.