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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books Diaries Correspondence |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943. Hero perished. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 1991 (DLC) 91010195 (OCoLC)23214607 |
| Named Person: | Nile C Kinnick; Nile C Kinnick |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nile C Kinnick; Paul Baender |
| ISBN: | 1587290103 9781587290107 |
| OCLC Number: | 44959243 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xliii, 290 p.) : ill. |
| Contents: | Acknowledgments; Introduction; Preface; The Letters; The Diary; Introduction to the Diary; Volume I; Volume II; Volume III; Notes to the Diary; |
| Responsibility: | edited by Paul Baender. |
Abstract:
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—and his death shocked a nation grown
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