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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 shocke

Football players -- United States -- Correspondence. --- Football players -- United States -- Diaries. --- Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943 -- Correspondence. --- Kinnick, Nile C. (Nile Clarke), 1918-1943 -- Diaries. --- University of Iowa -- Football -- History.