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Someone has often done IT already!
This is a beautifully written and produced monograph concerning one of the most outstanding practical and scientific surgeons who has ever lived or likely to do do so. Every medical student should know about him, but sadly, almost none do. Certainly every trainee cardiovascular surgeon should know about him and his work in detail, but, alas, hardly any of us do.

Thus we, are indebted to Dr Edwards and the publishers for bringing this delightful short book and its Nobel Prize winning subject to our attention ... Read more

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His historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh one of the most famous men of the twentieth century, the subject of best-selling biographies and a hit movie, as well as the inspiration for a dance step—the Lindy Hop—that he himself was too shy to try. But for all the attention lavished on Lindbergh, one story has remained untold until now: his macabre scientific collaboration with Dr. Alexis Carrel. This oddest of couples—one a brilliant Nobel Prize-winning surgeon turned social engineer, the other a failed dirt farmer turned hero of the skies—joined forces in 1930 driven by a shared and secret dream: to conquer death and attain immortality.

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Profiles in extreme behavior
50 years ago, before MTV, before rock & roll, and the Internet, America was captivated by individuals who actually accomplished great deeds.Two of them were Charles Lindbergh and Alexis Carrel.The former became famous for his flying prowess, his rags to riches fame, and then his political stances.Dr. Carrel was reknowned for his medical skills, and being the first American to win a Nobel Prize.This book examines their lives and relationship over the course of the early and middle of the 20th century.Covering the professional and personal lives of both men, the book explores the world they lived in, and how they changed it for better and worse.Hence the book profiles the rise of the aviation industry, advances in vascular research and cytology, the advent of WWII, the death of pacifism in the USA.Both Lindbergh and Carrel started out at the head of these changes, but were eventually overtaken by them.More importantly, many of the views the two men shared at the beginning of their relationships would come back to haunt each of them.Maybe the best way to sum up each man's life is that sometimes one meets a destiny on a road chosen specifically to avoid that destiny.Overall, a great book; well-researched and easy to read.

For Lindbergh Case Afficionados
A must for the serious student of the case. Was recommended to me by an expert.

More lies about Lindbergh!
In David M. Friedman's psuedo-science book,
he tries a slight smear v. the great Amer-I-Can
hero Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. by aserting
that though Lindberg helped one-time friend Alexis
Carrel produce a machine to keep genes and hearts
alive - away from the body for use by elite cauca-
sians [only) while all Lindbergh really did was use
his mechanical skills to help the former Nobel-prize
winning doc put together an external perfusion pump.

There is notruth that Lindberg or Carrel were ever
involved in 'eugenics' which is close to NUTZI-ism!
Neither of these men were 'egalitarians' as the flawed
khazar [Neo-Bolsheviki) author contends. Note the author
used to work for the Federal Reserve Banking cartel, an
organization the aviator's late father opposed from the
beginning. It's also a fact that Rockefeller contributed
to help get this smear publised ONCE Lindbergh was dead!

An excellent book, but keep it in perspective.
The first half of this book is superb in detailing the development of the organ perfusion pump and related scientific breakthroughs made by Dr. Carrel and Mr. Lindbergh in the 1930s. In this part, Mr. Friedman relies mostly on his own research.

The second half describes the sad fate of Mr Carrel, who was unfairly accused of collaboration, and the unique fate of Mr Lindbergh, who was demonized during the neutrality debate in 1939-41 (and still is). Here Friedman draws heavily on the work of A. Scott Berg, whose biography of Lindbergh is fair but obviously incomplete, and on Max Wallace's The American Axis, which is not fair.

Carrel, a brilliant scientist with controversial opinions, in now mostly forgotten, but Lindbergh certainly isn't. There is a vast chasm between Lindbergh's reputation in the aviation community and his vilification among the chattering classes. In the former, he is esteemed not so much for his rather elementary 1927 flight, but for his subsequent contributions, not least flying fifty combat missions as a civilian, and developing engine management techniques which continue to be taught and have probably saved many lives. In the latter domain, Lindbergh is a piñata, but an unusually enduring one who keeps getting hung up and whacked for the views he is supposed to have held. Friedman is in the second domain, but his approach is new in looking at the Carrel-Lindbergh collaboration.

Anti-Lindberghists are faced with a terrible dilemma. It is impossible to examine the pilot's work, utterances, and voluminous writings without concluding that he was an earnest, well-meaning, humanitarian, and patriotic person who made substantial contributions in every field he entered, and whose main fault was political dyslexia.

To get around this, anti-Lindberghism must extrapolate and exaggerate. Of course, the media simply lied, and the writer Philip Roth, borrowing from the tactics of the authors of the Chronicles of the Elders, writes a whole parallel history in his recent The Plot against America. In contrast, Friedman is honest, but spins some facts against the flier.

The blood libel against Lindbergh - that he was a racist, Hitler-loving, anti-Semitic eugenicist - is now such a shibboleth that it's risky to set the facts straight. Lindbergh had nothing against Jews, but he was worried about the power of the Jewish lobby over American foreign policy. In a peculiar statement such as "it's good for a country to have some Jews but not too many" one senses a puzzled mechanic trying to adjust the mixture so that the engine will run smoothly.

In warning about the Lobby, he said what everybody knows. Friedman parrots Berg in countering that only a few percent of the total media is Jewish-owned, but everyone can see that is an artful evasion. On the other hand, that power is perfectly legitimate, and Lindbergh was clearly wrong to suggest that a Mr Goldberg's opinion is less "American" than a Mr Lindberg's.

He was completely mystified by the media vendetta against him after his 9.11.41 speech in which he said the English, the Jews, and the FDR folks were trying to get us into the war - the same speech in which he said he understood their anguish and deplored the outrages being carried out in Germany.

Agree with neutrality or not, what he said was true, but his timing was certainly abominable. Friedman, to be fair, emphasizes the case of a Jewish scientist whom Lindbergh helped escape Germany in 1936. In that man's words, the Colonel was not "sophisticated." Had he been more "sophisticated" he could have used this period to also agitate for the acceptance of European Jews into America - with his access, Berlin would have had to listen. Paradoxically, if he had done this, he would also have exposed the true anti-Semitism lurking in the U.S. government.

Lindbergh wasn't a racist, but he was certainly a racialist. He had no interest in denying anyone their rights, but he repeated the common contemporary prejudices about the characteristics of races and ethnic groups. "I admire both races" (English and Jews) sounds weird today, but such terminology was in common use in the first half of the 20th century. And it's a strange racist who spends much of the rest of his life as a spokesman for indigenous peoples worldwide.

The Colonel was sent to Germany to report on German air power for the U.S. Army. Being gullible, he was taken in by German efficiency propaganda and overestimated the relative strength of the German air force. Nonetheless, his maligned predictions to Mr Chamberlain and the French were quickly proved correct. People who have carefully studied the 1938 correlation of forces tend to agree with him that the decision not to go to war over the Sudetenland was wise.

Lindbergh was pro-republic and anti-democracy, in sharp contrast with FDR, whose New Deal was almost openly fascistic. He tried to be impartial in the European civil war, and held both sides equally responsible. He favored a negotiated settlement. Though these views sound naïve today, they were standard U.S. foreign policy up until the war. Would it have been better to take his advice? Who knows - the whole thing could have ended a million different ways and all we know for sure is that we'd all be taught that the good guys won. You can read Niall Ferguson, not usually considered a monster, and find very similar assessments.

Lindbergh favored eugenics because it's common sense. Ever noticed that people shopping for genetic material tend to favor Nobel winners and avoid Death Row? Eugenics has only gotten a bad name because it was used coercively by governments.

The neutrality debate of 1939-41 has a lot in common with the intervention debate of 2001-03. The Colonel didn't realize that reasoned argument is not the currency of public debate. What happened to Messrs Blix, Ritter, and Wilson in 2003 is chicken scratch compared to what they did to Lindbergh. (And what Bush did to the Constitution pales compared to FDR's scorched-earth war against it.)

In the end, one senses that anti-Lindberghism has more to do with the idea of Lindbergh than Lindbergh's ideas. (Amusingly, something similar might be said about anti-Semitism, which caters to the base psychological needs of the mob.) The media made him into a Nordic superhero; then they went berserk tearing him apart. His firstborn was killed, he was run out of the country, and then Lucky Lindy was made into an American Hitler. You don't have to agree with him to see the calumniation. People who say only what they are supposed to, aren't worth listening to; Lindbergh and Carrel certainly weren't in that category.

really interesting
You might think you know Charles Lindbergh, the guy who flew the plane and got famous, had a kidnapped & killed baby boy, etc. But Lindbergh was a really complex guy, with a difficult personality and his own views on things. This book is about one of those things.
It's a fascinating account of his relationship with another unusual person who happened to be a surgeon and medical researcher. Lindbergh is not well known for this portion of his life, but his mechanical intuition led to the forerunner of the cardiac bypass pump!
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The temptations of a new genetically informed eugenics and of a revived faith-based, world-wide political stance, this study of the interaction of science, religion, politics and the culture of celebrity in twentieth-century Europe and America offers a fascinating and important contribution to the history of this movement. The author looks at the career of French-born physician and Nobel Prize winner, Alexis Carrel (1873-1944), as a way of understanding the popularization of eugenics through religious faith, scientific expertise, cultural despair and right-wing politics in the 1930s and 1940s. Carrel was among the most prestigious experimental surgeons of his time who also held deeply illiberal views. In "Man, the Unknown" (1935), he endorsed fascism and called for the elimination of the "unfit." The book became a huge international success, largely thanks to its promotion by Readers' Digest as well as by the author's friendship with Charles Lindbergh. In 1941, he went into the service of the French pro-German regime of Vichy, which appointed him to head an institution of eugenics research.His influence was remarkable, affecting radical Islamic groups as well Le Pen's Front National that celebrated him as the "founder of ecology." It includes a foreword by Herman Lebovics. ... Read more

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