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When singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her London home in 2011, the press inducted her into what Kurt Cobain's mother named the 27 Club. "Now he's gone and joined that stupid club," she said in 1994, after being told that her son, the front man of Nirvana, had committed suicide. "I told him not to." Kurt's mom was referring to the extraordinary roll call of iconic stars who died at the same young age.

The Immortalists - Charles Lindbergh and Dr. Alexis Carrel and their quest to Live Forever written by David M. Friedman performed by Todd McLaren on CD (Unabridged)

The Immortalists - Charles Lindbergh and Dr. Alexis Carrel and their quest to Live Forever written by David M. Friedman performed by Todd McLaren on CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9781400105267
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Biography
Duration:  690 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  David M. Friedman
Performer 1:  Todd McLaren

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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. It began in 1930 in the Rockerfeller Institute for Medical Research, a haven created by the world’s richest man so that medical investigators could pursue their dreams freed from the demands of clinical practice. For Carrel, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1932 for pioneering organ transplants, conquering death was the aim. But not for everyone – only for a select few.

To help him Carrel needed a mechanical genius. Might that genius be the handsome pilot who astonished the world in May 1927 by flying alone across the Atlantic in a single-engine airplane he designed himself?

The Immortalists is a captivating study of medical innovation, the fallibility of science and two adventurous minds. The Immortalists is a captivating study of medical innovation, the fallibility of science and two adventurous minds.

David M Friedman has written for Esquire, GQ, and Rolling Stone, and has been a reporter for New York Newsday and the Philadelphia Daily News.

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