Under a Wing: A Memoir

I really have enjoyed reading Reeve's memoir of her family. She has an amazing memory and can describe details of any past situation like it just happened minutes ago. I am always amazed by people who can do that (especially since I am not one of them). I come from a famous family too and enjoyed reading this book because I have always been fascinated at hearing about someone elses recollections of the past. Reeve's family experience isnt much different than my own family's and in some cases I laugh because some of the stories she has told (i.e. burping a fountain pen) is the same as my familys. My grandfather, who's stories are much the same as Charles Lindberg's, was also raised in Minnesota (St. Paul & Hallepin) so I was delighted to hear Reeve inform the reader of her father's recollections of this same period and place.Reeve writes her book in a way which makes you feel like your her best friend. She opens her soul to you and pours out all that makes her happy and sad. Although I am confident that this book will be considered one of the best memoirs of its time, I am sure that her family will be very glad she wrote it because she has unearthed the legends of her family's past and how it made them who they are. This is truly a great book...

Reeve Lindbergh tells stories that we want to hear about everyday life with her famous, complicated father and her intelligent, artistic mother. Reeve's delicate, precise prose is reminiscent of her mother's style of writing. A reviewer said of Anne Lindbergh that she "combed" her life for meaning and the daughter seems tuned into that same compulsion. It helps that she writes with as much insight as did her mother. The passage that describes the hours mother and daughter spent together after the death of Reeve's child is heartbreakingly revealing of the private Anne and her anguish after the kidnapping and death of her own child. Reeve's reminiscences of flying with her father (she was not an enthusiast) and her longing for her enigmatic father are poignant. She does not avoid discussing Lindbergh's perceived anti-Semitism; she does not attempt to defend him but rather keeps her emphasis on the effect this controversy had (and has) on her connection with him. I challenge any daughter to read Reeve's account of her visit to her father's childhood home without weeping.

There can be no doubt that Reeve Lindbergh's memoir is the most touching book about that family that I have read. Through her eyes we go beyond the covers of other books and see what it really meant to be a Lindbergh.They were almost a closed society onto themselves, yet they still experienced the same joys and sorrows as the rest of us. We find the man who was depised as an isolationist to be a concerned and loving father who read to his children.We dine with the children at their grandmother's house and we soar above the Connecticut house on Saturdays. The famed aviator at the controls and a bored child in the rear seat.After reading this book I felt very attached to this famous family. Being the same age as Reeve herself, my only knowledge of the Lindbergh's was the famous flight and the kidnapping as I read in history books. Now, after this book, I feel as though I have become part of them.It can only be summed up in one word, wonderful.

Legacy or AnneMorrow Lindbergh A-must read!

The author paints a realistic view of her family life growing up as the youngest of the Lindberg family. Sometimes though, her detailed descriptions got a bit too detailed, for example, when she spends pages writing about their homes. What I found riviting what that this book was written several years before she discovered her European half-sibs and therefore when she wrote it she was sure he just had one family, not four!How shocking that revelation must have been to her...

Reeve is likable. Lindbergh history is awesome and awful.

After reading and loving "The Aviator's Wife", I had to hear the daughter's experience growing up a Lindbergh. The story was very interesting and gave additional detail to family life for them. It did not disappoint.

An interesting book of her childhood and what it was like to a child to live with famous parents and grandparents.

著者の母アン・モロウ・リンドバーグによる「海からの贈り物」を３０年近く愛読してきたが、昨年末スコット・A・バーグという人が書いた「リンドバーグー空からきた男」という本を読み、アンと彼女の夫の間の複雑な関係を知り、私の心の中で、（不遜にも）アンが「崇拝・尊敬」の対象から「哀れみ」の対象になっていってしまった。しかし、娘の立場からかかれたこの本を読んで、両親の、違いこそあれ互いを必要とし、支え合ってきた夫婦の姿がみえてきて、ほっとした。　それにしても著者はいくつの「死」と向き合ったのだろうか。写真でしか知らないのに自分よりも世間の人の方がよく知っている「兄」、その兄と同じくらい幼いときに突然亡くなった「息子」、誕生日を同じ日に持つ、ガンで亡くなった姉」、それまでの用意周到な人生と同じように、自分の墓まで指示して亡くなった、あまりにも偉大な「父」、そして、命が続きながらも感情の交流がほとんどできなくなった「母」など、セピア色の写真の表紙の裏には、いくつもの貴重な思い出が詰められている。正気を失った母から胸いっぱいに飲み物をかけられたときのやり場のない怒り、父の「反ユダヤ主義」のスピーチの録音を聞いたときの、驚き・悲しみ・混乱・・・深く愛し、尊敬するが故の肉親への正直な気持ちであろう。