You’ll have to forgive my ignorance, but I did not know that Charles A. Lindbergh ever collaborated with a famous Nobel Prize-winning physician, Dr. Alexis Carrel.

Luckily, David M. Friedman has written a book about them, “The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever.”

Evidently, both men were interested in eugenics and the perfection of the human species. In his 1935 best seller “Man, the Unknown,” Carrel urgently argued for
the creation of biologic classes, with the weak and sick at one end,
and the strong and fit at the other. The sorting was to be accomplished by a
council of scientific experts much like himself.

Lindbergh, meanwhile, suffering through the kidnapping and murder of
his oldest son, and the miserable press orgy that followed, became less
and less inclined to tolerate any part of the common man. Living in
Europe to avoid the paparazzi in the United States, he was soon vocally
admiring the order and precision of Nazi Germany.

And to think I thought Chuck was just a pilot. What an ass I’ve been!

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