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A Hero Perished

- The Diary and Selected Letters of Nile Kinnick

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  • Engelsk
  • 334 sider

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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--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For the first time, Kinnick tells his own tale through his engaging letters--all but one previously unpublished--and his diary, printed in its entirety for the first time.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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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal334
  • Udgivelsesdato01-09-1992
  • ISBN139780877453901
  • Forlag University Of Iowa Press
  • Nummer i serien429
  • FormatPaperback
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  • Vægt562 g
  • Dybde2,1 cm
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    10 cm
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    15,4 cm
    23,2 cm

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