F scott fitzgerald video biography of charles
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F scott fitzgerald video biography of charles
In the late spring of 1927, something bright and alien flashed across the sky. A young Minnesotan who seemed to have nothing to do with his generation did a heroic thing, and for a moment people set down their glasses in country clubs and speakeasies and thought of their old best dreams.
--F.
Scott Fitzgerald
Charles was born on February 4, 1902 and spent most of his childhood in Little Falls, Minnesota. Son of a local attorney, and later congressman, Charles was described as both reserved and withdrawn – character traits for which he was known for the rest of his life. In the summer of 1912, at age 10, Charles’ mother took him to the air races. Charles was hooked. After failing out of the Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin, in April of 1922 Charles moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and enrolled in a local flight school. When the school closed shortly thereafter, he joined a barnstorming operation, billing