Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever »

David M. Friedman has written for Esquire, GQ, and Rolling Stone, and was a reporter for New York Newsday and the Philadelphia Daily News. His first book, A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis, was published in more than a dozen countries. He lives in New York.

The Immortalists is the fascinating story of the friendship and extraordinary scientific collaboration between Charles Lindbergh and Nobel Prize-winning surgeon Dr. Alexis Carrel, who shared the goal of finding a scientific path to life without death. Unabridged. 10 CDs.

The New York Times - Kyla Dunn

In The Immortalists, the journalist David M. Friedman rescues this remarkable tale from the footnotes of history, arguing that Carrel and Lindbergh were secretly chasing after eternal life—but only for the right sort of people.

I Will Show You What I'm Doing Here     1
If Man Could Learn to Fly     17
A Student Who May Amount to Something     25
Isn't He in the Crib?     41
The Chamber of Life     54
Every Act of His Is Not a Fluke     75
Men of Genius Are Not Tall     86
A Tiny Puff of Smoke     95
The Most Interesting Place in the World Today     103
The Exploration of This Realm Is a Great New Adventure     118
The Reaction of a Man Would Probably Be Similar     128
Two Men Sitting on Two Rocks     137
By Order of the Fuhrer     151
I'll Take a Rain Check     157
Not Merely a Schoolboy Hero, but a Schoolboy     171
For We All Know What Awaits Us     177
There Is Much I Do Not Like That Is Happening in the World     186
The Tissues, the Blood, and the Mind of Man     201
The World Was Never Clearer     220
The Grandeur of His Life     233
I Felt the Godlike Power     247
Only by Dying     258
No, Science Has Abandoned Me     270
Epilogue: All of Us Are Following     283
Acknowledgements     285
Notes     287
Index     321