A hero perished : the diary and selected letters of Nile Kinnick /
A Hero Perished tells Nile Kinnick's story. This grandson of an Iowa governor, the son of parents who disciplined him to strive for his measure of greatness, became a Heisman Trophy winner and national celebrity through a combination of talent and circumstance. Following his college successes,...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Iowa City, Iowa :
University of Iowa Press,
1991.
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| Edition: | [Pbk. ed., 1991]. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21937 |
| Summary: | A Hero Perished tells Nile Kinnick's story. This grandson of an Iowa governor, the son of parents who disciplined him to strive for his measure of greatness, became a Heisman Trophy winner and national celebrity through a combination of talent and circumstance. Following his college successes, Kinnick began legal study to prepare for a political career, but with the approach of war he entered the Navy Air Corps to refashion himself as a fighter pilot. Assigned to the carrier USS Lexington on its premier cruise, he took off in a defective plane & mdash;and his death shocked a nation grown. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xliii, 290 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 1587290103 9781587290107 0877453365 087745390X |