Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. We run a tight rope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. It involves not only family demands, but community demands, national demands, international demands on the good citizen, through social and cultural pressures, through newspapers, magazines, radio programs, political drives, charitable appeals and so on. “For life today in America is based on the premise of ever-widening circles of contact and communication. It lacks a plot, but contains deep wisdom and great insight into human nature. It’s about a short trip she took to alone to Captiva Island, Florida, getting a restful reprieve on the beach, a vacation from the usual demands on her time, and her thoughts about how best to live a meaningful life. It’s not about fame, or being married to a public figure, or aviation, or any of the extraordinary experiences she’d had traveling around the world, or the famous people she’d met over the years. They ultimately did return to their home country, and fully supported the war effort after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Īnne Lindbergh’s writing, after WWII, helped rebuild the family’s reputation, and Gift from the Sea became a national best seller.

They subsequently became extremely unpopular in the US due to their isolationist views and admiration for some Nazi positions. The family left the United States for Europe to escape the attention and intrusion in their grief, frightened for their safety. (She became an accomplished aviator in her own right as well.) His celebrity and public adulation also brought great pain and suffering to their family: their first child was kidnapped and murdered, with a resulting press frenzy. Her husband, Charles Lindbergh, was incredibly famous, due to his 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic.

It’s widely considered a classic, and for good reason.Īnne Morrow Lindbergh had a very unusual life. This book is hard to describe without making it sound slight, or trite, but it is neither.

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