The book is about the rivalry between the most beloved and iconic men in America during that time, the patriotic aviator, Charles Augustus Lindbergh and one of the most lauded Presidents of United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The plot of the goes about how Roosevelt and his administration destroy Lindbergh’s image as they smear him with accusations of being a Nazi sympathizer or an Anti-Semite. The book opens with a chapter named “The Lindbergh Legacy,” where the author gives an introduction to Lindbergh and his past. The chapter talks about his non-stop flight to Paris, the death of his 20- month old son and his father Charles August Lindbergh aka C.A. who was a Republican politician working under Theodore Roosevelt. It further discusses…show more content… Roosevelt would in fact privately call Lindbergh a Nazi too and he would try to get the FBI to find dirt on Lindbergh that would tie his fate as a Nazi. The British intelligence agents secretly working with in the US would also get in on the act to try to prove Lindbergh a Nazi since Lindbergh had always been against the British cause of bringing the US into war. The Anti-Semite allegation is another one of the allegation that still fits today. This was stemmed through another one of speeches where he was actually sympathetic of the Jews but ends the speech saying that the Jews and British are looking out for their interest and America should not be dragged into destruction looking out for other people. But this would then be used as to be against the Jews and Lindbergh is now tagged as an Anti-Semite. When the war finally broke out, Lindbergh would replace a speech that would be a full blown attack at Roosevelt for bringing America into war and instead the member of America First Committee to unite as Americans and join in the war efforts. He would himself try to join the Army Air Corps, but the pressure from Roosevelt on the officials would keep Lindbergh out. Lindbergh would eventually work with Henry Ford in the production of
