Immortalists Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

Name: Immortalists Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever
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ISBN: 9780060528164

ISBN-10: 0060528168

ISBN-13: 9780060528164

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Authors: David M. Friedman

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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. Part Frankenstein, part The Professor…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

David M. Friedman is the authorof Wilde in America, A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural Historyof the Penis and The Immortalists:Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, andTheir Daring Quest to Live Forever.




I Will Show You What I'm Doing Here



If Man Could Learn to Fly



A Student Who May Amount to Something



Isn't He in the Crib?



The Chamber of Life



Every Act of His Is Not a Fluke



Men of Genius Are Not Tall



A Tiny Puff of Smoke



The Most Interesting Place in the World Today



The Exploration of This Realm Is a Great New Adventure



The Reaction of a Man Would Probably Be Similar



Two Men Sitting on Two Rocks



By Order of the Fuhrer



I'll Take a Rain Check



Not Merely a Schoolboy Hero, but a Schoolboy



For We All Know What Awaits Us



There Is Much I Do Not Like That Is Happening in the World



The Tissues, the Blood, and the Mind of Man



The World Was Never Clearer



The Grandeur of His Life



I Felt the Godlike Power



Only by Dying



No, Science Has Abandoned Me


Epilogue: All of Us Are Following


Acknowledgements


Notes


Index