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 * Life of Lindbergh according to the book.[[image:http://www.census.gov/history/img/StLouis1920s.jpg width="330" height="247" align="right"]]**

Born February 4, 1902 in Detroit Michigan

Attends his first air meet in 1912

Father leaves office to oppose U.S. entry into World War I in 1917

Graduates from Little Falls High School, Minnesota in 1918

Enrolls in University of Wisconsin as engineering student in 1920

First solo flight on April 9, 1922

Graduates first in class from U.S. Air Service Flying School, Kelly Field, San Antonio; is commissioned second lieutenant in Air Service Reserve Corps; becomes Chief Pilot, Robertson Aircraft Co., St. Louis in 1925

Lindbergh enlisted in the 110th Observation Squadron, Missouri National Guard, and was promoted to first lieutenant in 1925

Lindbergh lands in Paris, becoming the first pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927

Lindbergh marries Anne Morrow on May 27,1929

Birth of First baby, Charles Lindbergh Jr. on June 22,1930 March-May 1932
 * Charles Jr. is kidnapped from secluded home of the Lindberghs.
 * His corpse is discovered 10 weeks later.
 * Second son is born, Jon Lindbergh

September 1934-March 1935
 * German immigrant, Bruno R. Hauptmann, was conviceted for the murder of Lindberghs son.
 * The publicity of the trial was said to make it "trial of the century".

April 1935
 * Anne Morrow Lindbergh publishes her first book, //North of the Orient.//
 * It was her accounts of her 1931 adventures with linbergh.
 * it won the National Bookseller Award for the most distinguish nonfiction book of the year.

December 1935-December 1936
 * Seeking privacy, the Lindbergh family goes to live in Kent, England.
 * Was invited to Germany to report on Nazi aircraft development.
 * went to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where Hitler was in attendance.
 * Lindbergh writes to friend about Hitler that "He is undoubtedly a great man".[[image:http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/83/3c/cebab220dca07126ec4d1010.L._AA240_.jpg width="216" height="216" align="right"]][[image:http://images.absoluteastronomy.com/images/encyclopediaimages/s/se/service_cross_of_the_german_eagle.jpg width="140" height="210" align="right"]]

October 1938
 * Service Cross of the German Eagle medal was presented to Lindbergh by Air Marshall Hermann Goring at American Embassy dinner.
 * Anne Morrow Lindbergh publishes second book, //Listen! the Wind//.
 * Due to Charles's growing unpopularity among American anti-facists, some Jewish book stores would not sell the book.

April 1939
 * Hitler invades Czechoslovakia
 * Air Corps Chief, General "Hap" Arnold requests Charles Lindbergh to go on to active duty as colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps.

September 1939
 * After Germany Invades Poland, Lindbergh speaks to Republican National Committee about it.
 * In a 1939 journal entry, he writes "There are too many Jews in places like New York already. A few Jews add strength and character to a country, but too many create chaos. And we are getting too many."
 * Lindbergh is urged by Idaho Republican senator William E. Borah to run for President.
 * Lindbergh says he prefers to take political postitions as a priavte citizen.

Thats where the story changes...

In the book Lindbergh doesnt take polictical positions as a private citizen, he Becomes the Republican canidate in the 1940 Presidential election, and runs agaisnt FDR and unltimatley wins.