{"product_id":"the-immortalists-charles-lindbergh-dr-alexis-carrel-and-their-daring-quest-to-live-forever","title":"The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh  Dr. Alexis Carrel  and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe was one of the most famous men of the twentieth century  the subject of bestselling biographies and a hit movie  as well as the inspiration for a dance step  the Lindy Hop  he himself was too shy to try. But 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. Their endeavor began on November 28  1930  in Carrels laboratory at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York  a haven created by the worlds richest man  John D. Rockefeller  so that medical investigators could pursue their wildest dreams  freed from the demands of clinical practice. For Carrel  who won the Nobel Prize in 1912 for pioneering organ transplants  that dream was conquering death. But not for everyone  only a special few. In one of his more ghoulish experiments  Carrel removed the heart from a chick embryo and placed it in a glass jar  where  with special cleansing and feeding  he kept it alive  with no signs of aging  far beyond the species natural life span. That result  Carrel believed  suggested that natural death wasnt inevitable. But to attempt such a test with humans  Carrel needed a mechanical genius to create a device in which severed human organs could live and function indefinitely. Might that genius be the handsome pilot who astonished the world in May 1927 by flying alone across the Atlantic  a feat even most pilots had thought impossible  in a singleengine airplane he designed himself? Part Frankenstein  part The Professor and the Madman  and all true  The Immortalists is the remarkable story of how two men of prodigious achievement  and equally large character flaws  challenged natures oldest rule  with consequences  personal  professional  and political  neither man anticipated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966574620725,"sku":"ByrdShop_006052815X","price":22.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780060528157.jpg?v=1770569266","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-immortalists-charles-lindbergh-dr-alexis-carrel-and-their-daring-quest-to-live-forever","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}