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WORLD WAR II
Charles Lindbergh
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LEGACY
We are a rarity in the world. We have turned down dark paths in our history, but we have always tried to right ourselves by remembering the principles that America was founded upon.
IN HIS OWN WORDS
The author of The Plot Against America, Philip Roth spends Inauguration Day dwelling on everything from the perplexing case of Melania Trump to America’s state of suspended insurrection.
DOOMED TO REPEAT HISTORY?
It has happened here before—and its most shameless voice was Charles Lindbergh.
MAKE AMERICA GROSS AGAIN
The conservative radio host thinks that Trump will inspire Americans to shriek with delight once they see him take on Clinton.
HARBINGER?
In 1931, the New Yorker humorist wrote a story about a round-the-world flier whose loutish behavior and loose tongue eerily anticipated the boorish Donald Trump.
Enigma
Charles Lindbergh became famous for flying solo across the Atlantic just when the star-maker machinery of mass media was revving up. Man and moment were made for each other.
The Aviator
Even a novel can’t capture the relentless weirdness and sexual appetites of the famed aviator. By Joshua Kendall.