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Under a wing : a memoir
Lindbergh, Reeve.
Adult Nonfiction 921 L6415
From Publishers' Weekly:
Having already written about her family's life after Charles Lindbergh's death in the autobiographical novel The Names of the Mountains, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's youngest has written an evocative reminiscence of her youth in Darien, Conn., with her two famous parents. This gentle memoir shows a unique and uniquely poignant family life: "In our family it has always been hard to know what is right and what is wrong, in terms of what we can do for one another. It has been hard for us, too, to separate individual identity from family identity." The resulting publicity left their family with a fear of exposure. The author's father was always wary of what others could seea cautiousness that extended to clothes, architecture and even the color of the family car. Although her father was constantly trying to shape and mold his children (no Wonder Bread, marshmallow fluff, grape jelly or candy was allowed at home and lectures and discussions were frequent), his widely perceived anti-Semitism ultimately hurt his family deeply. Anne Morrow Lindbergh emerges from this retrospective as a gentle, even ethereal, intellectual whose style was the polar opposite of her husband's. While the reader might like to know more about Reeve and her own family, instead, we are given an intimate look at other family members and at her parents' marriage. From an idyllicif somewhat isolatedyouth in Darien, to her father's death and her mother's mental deterioration, Reeve has watched and learned and shared with readers what she refers to as the living language of her parents' marriage. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
From Library Journal:
This elegantly written memoir by the youngest child of aviators Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh is a terrific surprise. Among the vital lessons Reeve Lindbergh learned growing up in her remote father's well-ordered household was the importance of words: Both her parents were best-selling authors. Even after his fall from national political grace, Charles Lindbergh remained godlike to his family. But, to her credit, the daughter's beautiful account of an awe-inspiring if loving parent is less sparing, in its way, of Lindbergh's political mistakes than Scott Berg's biography (p. 54). A rare memoir whose goal is not to expose but finally to understand. (LJ 10/1/98) (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Lindbergh, Reeve.
Adult Nonfiction 921 L6415
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From Publishers' Weekly:
Having already written about her family's life after Charles Lindbergh's death in the autobiographical novel The Names of the Mountains, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's youngest has written an evocative reminiscence of her youth in Darien, Conn., with her two famous parents. This gentle memoir shows a unique and uniquely poignant family life: "In our family it has always been hard to know what is right and what is wrong, in terms of what we can do for one another. It has been hard for us, too, to separate individual identity from family identity." The resulting publicity left their family with a fear of exposure. The author's father was always wary of what others could seea cautiousness that extended to clothes, architecture and even the color of the family car. Although her father was constantly trying to shape and mold his children (no Wonder Bread, marshmallow fluff, grape jelly or candy was allowed at home and lectures and discussions were frequent), his widely perceived anti-Semitism ultimately hurt his family deeply. Anne Morrow Lindbergh emerges from this retrospective as a gentle, even ethereal, intellectual whose style was the polar opposite of her husband's. While the reader might like to know more about Reeve and her own family, instead, we are given an intimate look at other family members and at her parents' marriage. From an idyllicif somewhat isolatedyouth in Darien, to her father's death and her mother's mental deterioration, Reeve has watched and learned and shared with readers what she refers to as the living language of her parents' marriage. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
From Library Journal:
This elegantly written memoir by the youngest child of aviators Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh is a terrific surprise. Among the vital lessons Reeve Lindbergh learned growing up in her remote father's well-ordered household was the importance of words: Both her parents were best-selling authors. Even after his fall from national political grace, Charles Lindbergh remained godlike to his family. But, to her credit, the daughter's beautiful account of an awe-inspiring if loving parent is less sparing, in its way, of Lindbergh's political mistakes than Scott Berg's biography (p. 54). A rare memoir whose goal is not to expose but finally to understand. (LJ 10/1/98) (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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