xii, 562 pages : 22 cm

Biography of Charles Lindbergh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927

"A condensation has appeared in the Saturday evening post under the title '33 hours to Paris.'"

Pulitzer Prize, Biography, 1954

Part I. The craft -- St. Louis-Chicago mail -- New York -- San Diego -- Across the continent -- Roosevelt Field -- Part II. New York to Paris -- The log of the Spirit of St. Louis -- The cruiser Memphis -- Decorations, awards & trophies / by Esther B. Mueller -- The Raymond Orteig prize -- Engineering data on the Spirit of St. Louis / by Donald A. Hall -- Specifications and general description of the Whirlwind engine / by Kenneth M. Lane

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