Details
Hero Perished
The Diary and Selected Letters of Nile Kinnick|
44,93 € |
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| Verlag: | University Of Iowa Press |
| Format: | |
| Veröffentl.: | 01.09.1992 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781587290107 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 334 |
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Beschreibungen
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 almost used to tragic loss.For the first time, Kinnick tells his own tale through his engaging letters-all but one previously unpublished-and his diary, printed in its entirety for the first time. The result is a human, intimate look at the true person behind the myth, revealing both his foibles and his essential principles. A Hero Perished also includes a definitive text of Kinnick's moving Heisman Award acceptance speech and his impassioned commencement supper address, calling on the new Iowa graduates to achieve moral courage in a time of depression and war.An illuminating comment on a time and attitude that have passed, A Hero Perished is of and about a football player, but it is not a football book-it is far more. This volume displays Kinnick-who was, despite his great gifts and achievements, a vulnerable and decent young man-in a time of great change and peril when a phase of our culture was passing away.
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