War Bird: The Life and Times of Elliott White Springs

by Burke Davis

Book Overview

This is the first biography of Elliott White Springs (1896-1959), who was fifth-ranking U.S. pilot of World War I, best-selling author, advertising genius, and maverick maser of a textile manufacturing empire. War Birds, his masterpiece, inspired many books and films on the youth of World War I and the twenties. During the depression, Springs expanded the family textile mills in South Carolina, as others were retrenching, and made Springmaid sheets...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807865281
• ISBN13: 9780807865286
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"