One Summer

Oscar Hammerstein II also seemed to have come to the end of his road with Show Boat. He went a dozen years without a hit, but then he teamed up with Richard Rodgers and between them they put together the greatest run of successes in the history of musicals: Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music

In New York in 1932, Roxy Rothafel opened Radio City Music Hall at Rockefeller Center. (The famous Rockettes were originally the Roxyettes.)

Prison was not too tough for Capone. He had a bed with a spring mattress and had homemade meals delivered to his cell. At Thanksgiving he was served a turkey dinner by a butler hired for the day. He was allowed to keep a stock of liquor and to use the warden’s office to receive guests. The warden vehemently denied that Capone received preferential

Hoover took office in March 1929, and in October the stock market crashed. Hoover never recovered from that blow. In the three years following the crash, America’s unemployment rate rose from 3 percent to 25 percent, while average household earnings fell by 33 percent, industrial production by almost 50 percent, and the stock market by 90 percent.

According to further reports, Lindbergh also had simultaneous relationships with Brigitte Hesshaimer’s sister, Marietta, by whom he had two more children, and with a German secretary, identified only as Valeska, with whom he had yet two more children.

Between 1957 and his death, Lindbergh had conducted a secret long-distance relationship with a German milliner, Brigitte Hesshaimer of Munich, with whom he had two sons and a daughter. The children told reporters that Lindbergh had been “a mystery visitor who would turn up once or twice a year.” They knew he was their father, but thought his name w

Almost thirty years after his death, in 2003, it emerged that Lindbergh had had a far more complicated private life than previously thought.

What is certainly true is that both he and Anne were unapologetic admirers of Adolf Hitler. Anne described Hitler as “a visionary who really wants the best for his country.” Lindbergh thought Hitler was “undoubtedly a great man.” He acknowledged that the Nazis tended to be a little fanatical, but maintained, in a spirit of fairness, that “many of H

By this time, Charles and Anne had had enough. They moved to Europe, first to Kent in England, then to a house on a tiny island off the north coast of Brittany. On a neighboring island was the summer home of Alexis Carrel and his wife. The Lindberghs traveled around Europe a great deal, too, and developed an undisguised fondness for Germany. In 193