Charles Lindbergh's life followed an extraordinary arch. Flying solo across the Atlantic in the 1920s, he became the epitome of American daring and bravery. In the early 1930s, with the kidnapping and death of his son, Lindbergh became an icon of parental suffering. Then, in the late 1930s and early 1940s, as Lindbergh seemed to become an apologist for Nazism, he was widely reviled. In his final years he sought, but never achieved, redemption.