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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life

An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh—loyal wife, devoted mother, pioneering aviator, and critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Gift from the Sea.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been one of the most admired women and most popular writers of our time. Her Gift from the Seais a perennial favorite. But the woman behind the public person has remained largely unknown. Drawing on five years of exclusive interviews with Anne Morrow Lindbergh as well as countless diaries, letters, and other documents, Susan Hertog now gives us the woman whose triumphs, struggles and elegant perseverance riveted the public for much of the twentieth century.

Audience
adult
Length
epic · 606 pages

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