The Lone Eagle's Ascent and Darkest Descent
On May 21, 1927, he was the most celebrated man on earth. A decade later, he was a national pariah compared to a Civil War traitor. How did the exact same icy, clinical detachment that allowed a Minnesota airmail pilot to survive the Atlantic completely blind him to the horrors of the twentieth century? We pull back the curtain on the triumph and the tragedy.
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