"BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sports." . . . . "A hero perished : the diary and selected letters of Nile Kinnick" . . "Electronic books"@en . "Records and correspondence"@en . . "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."@en . . . "Records and correspondence" . . . "History"@en . . . "History" . . . . . "Diaries"@en . . "Diaries" . . "A hero perished the diary and selected letters of Nile Kinnick"@en . . . . "SPORTS & RECREATION Football." . .