In this final collection of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's letters and
journals, we mark Mrs. Lindbergh's progress as she navigated a
remarkable life and a remarkable century with enthusiasm and delight,
humor and wit, sorrow and bewilderment, but above all devoted to finding
the essential truth in life's experiences through a hard-won
spirituality and a passion for literature.
Between the inevitable squalls of life with her beloved but elusive
husband, the aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, she shepherded their five
children through whooping cough, horned toads, fiancés, the Vietnam War,
and their own personal tragedies. She researched and wrote books and
articles on issues ranging from the condition of Europe after World War
II to the meaning of marriage to the launch of Apollo 8. She published
one of the most beloved books of inspiration of all time, Gift from the
Sea. She left penetrating accounts of meetings with such luminaries as
John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Thornton Wilder, Enrico Fermi, Leland and
Slim Hayward, and the Frank Lloyd Wrights. And she found time to compose
extraordinarily insightful and moving letters of consolation to friends
and to others whose losses touched her deeply.
Against Wind and Tide makes us privy to the demons that plagued this
fairy-tale bride, and introduces us to some of the people--men as well
as women--who provided solace as she braved the tides of time and aging,
war and politics, birth and death. Here is an eloquent and often
startling collection of writings from one of the most admired women of
our time.
(With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.)
