ing in the Air Force after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh arranged a posting as an Air Force test pilot in the South Pacific, where he unofficially flew 50 combat missions. But the book suffers in the end from Berg's failure to confront Lindbergh's anti-Semitism head-on, or to explain why it was that he ''buried his head in the sand when confronted with the crimes of inhumanity that repelled so many others.'' The impression one comes away with is that Lindbergh's views were rooted not in hatred but in ignorance and a lack of human empathy--that he was, in short, a celebrity hopelessly out of his depth.
BY ANTHONY BIANCO
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