A hero perished : the diary and selected letters of Nile Kinnick / edited by Paul Baender.

By:

Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943

Contributor(s):

Baender, Paul

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 1991.Edition: [Pbk. ed., 1991]Description: 1 online resource (xliii, 290 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1587290103
9781587290107

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hero perished.DDC classification:

796.332/092 B 20

LOC classification:

GV939.K44 A3 1991eb

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Preface; The Letters; The Diary; Introduction to the Diary; Volume I; Volume II; Volume III; Notes to the Diary.

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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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.

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