David Megginson
Pattern Altitude
I borrowed this from the library and read it. It's an interesting take on a brilliant but flawed man, who was clever about aviation,* but once the fame went to his head, thought that meant he was equally clever about everything else, including police investigations, biology/medicine, racial theories, global politics, etc. (he wasn't).
His road back from disgrace — after Pearl Harbor turned the public and the government against him and his very-loud pro-Nazi sentiments — was his technical knowledge, which the military and airlines eventually decided outweighed a messy past.
Good reading, and a cautionary tale about letting one big success go to your head.
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Charles-Lindbergh/dp/052564654X/
* And lucky: he was falling asleep repeatedly and hallucinating in the dark before he reached Ireland, flying barely above the wave tops, and could easily have hit the water and become another historical footnote.
His road back from disgrace — after Pearl Harbor turned the public and the government against him and his very-loud pro-Nazi sentiments — was his technical knowledge, which the military and airlines eventually decided outweighed a messy past.
Good reading, and a cautionary tale about letting one big success go to your head.
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Charles-Lindbergh/dp/052564654X/
* And lucky: he was falling asleep repeatedly and hallucinating in the dark before he reached Ireland, flying barely above the wave tops, and could easily have hit the water and become another historical footnote.