Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century

by W. David Lewis

Book Overview

Eddie Rickenbacker epitomized the American spirit in the twentieth century. Daring, skilled, and rugged--moving fast and defying death--he drove race cars in the early days of the automobile, then flew canvas-over-wooden-frame aeroplanes in the Great War, downing twenty-six enemy flyers and emerging at war's end as the nation's ace of aces. Only Gen. John J. Black Jack Pershing and the much-decorated Sgt. Alvin York emerged from that struggle as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882443
• ISBN13: 9780801882449
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 720 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher