Publication: Air Power History
Publication Date: 22-JUN-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Wessel, Anthony E.
Article Excerpt
Eddie Rickenbacker. An American Hero in the Twentieth Century. By W. David Lewis. Baltimore Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiii, 669. $35.00. ISBN: 0-8018-8244-3.
The combat heroics of World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker are well-known to most military historians, but his fame as America's "Ace of Aces" is only a small part of the Rickenbacker story. This well written and extensively researched biography is a fascinating look at the life and times of one of the earliest great American heroes of the twentieth century.
As a young man in Ohio Rickenbacker became captivated by the new automobiles then coming into popular use. Securing for himself an apprenticeship...
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