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ShareHe was 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 – he himself was too shy to try.
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But for all the attention lavished on Charles Lindbergh, one story has remained untold until now: his macabre scientific collaboration with Dr.
Alexis Carrel.
Together this oddest of couples – one a brilliant surgeon turned social engineer, the other a failed dirt farmer turned hero of the skies – embarked on a secret quest to achieve immortality.
Their endeavor began on November 28, 1930, in Carrel's laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, a haven created by the world's richest man, John D.
Rockefeller, so that medical investigators could pursue their wildest dreams, freed from the demands of clinical practice.
For Carrel, who won the Nobel Prize in 1912 for pioneering organ transplants, that dream was conquering death.
For more information about the title The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever, read the full description at Amazon.com, or see the following related books:
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