"The day after which nothing could be the same for him was Friday, May 20, 1927. That morning, alone in a little plane powered by a single engine, Charles A. Lindbergh took off from a muddy runway on the outskirts of New York. His destination was Paris." So begins Brendan Gill"s book about the most extraordinary feat of one of our century"s most extraordinary men. With his clarity of vision and his characteristic elegance, Gill gives us a meditation on one man"s unprecedented accomplishment, and the world"s overwhelming response.