08.31.07
The immortalists
‘Immortalists’ exposes Achilles’ heel of two famous figures
Here are two alternative subtitles for David Friedman’s fascinating new book, The Immortalists: “Geniuses Do the Creepiest Things.” Or “Brains Aren’t Everything.”
Friedman’s non-fiction account, in stores Tuesday, describes the long collaboration between American aviator Charles Lindbergh and French scientist Alexis Carrel, who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1912. It examines the two men’s shared dream: to defeat death and pursue immortality.