Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Baender, Paul.
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| ISBN: | 1587290103
9781587290107
0877453365
087745390X
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| Notes: | Print version record.
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| 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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| Other form: | Print version: Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943. Hero perished. [Pbk. ed., 1991]. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 1991 0877453365
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