A hero perished: the diary and selected letters of Nile Kinnick
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Main Author: Kinnick, Nile C., (Nile Clarke) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City, Iowa University of Iowa Press 1991
Edition:[Pbk. ed., 1991]
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Item Description: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
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Preface; The Letters; The Diary; Introduction to the Diary; Volume I; Volume II; Volume III; Notes to the Diary
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xliii, 290 pages)
ISBN:0877453365
087745390X
1587290103
9781587290107

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