{"product_id":"the-immortalists-charles-lindbergh-dr-alexis-carrel-and-their-daring-quest-to-live-forever-9780060528164","title":"The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever","description":"\u003cp\u003eHis historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh 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--that he himself was too shy to try. But for all the attention lavished on Lindbergh, one story has remained untold until now: his macabre scientific collaboration with Dr. Alexis Carrel. This oddest of couples--one a brilliant Nobel Prize-winning surgeon turned social engineer, the other a failed dirt farmer turned hero of the skies--joined forces in 1930 driven by a shared and secret dream: to conquer death and attain immortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e, part \u003cem\u003eThe Professor and the Madman\u003c\/em\u003e, and all true, \u003cem\u003eThe Immortalists\u003c\/em\u003e is the remarkable story of how two men of prodigious achievement and equally large character flaws challenged nature's oldest rule, with consequences--personal, professional, and political--that neither man anticipated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFriedman, David M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDavid M. Friedman has written for \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGQ\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e, and was a reporter for \u003cem\u003eNew York Newsday\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Daily News\u003c\/em\u003e. His first book, \u003cem\u003eA Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in more than a dozen countries. He lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409402204434,"sku":"9780060528164","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_49400972-32f8-40e2-a35e-e895ba200a29.jpg?v=1729286293","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-immortalists-charles-lindbergh-dr-alexis-carrel-and-their-daring-quest-to-live-forever-9780060528164","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}