| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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Eddie Rickenbacker: An American Hero in the Twentieth Century. By W. David Lewis. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. xvi, 668 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8018-8244-3.)

Eddie Rickenbacker (1890–1973) first won fame as a race car driver, a calling that landed him a chauffeur's job on Gen. John J. Pershing's American Expeditionary Force (AEF) staff. In 1917 he negotiated a transfer to the Army Air Service, learned to fly, and excelled as a pursuit pilot, despite a corneal injury that limited his vision. After the war, he capitalized on his reputation as America's ace of aces to make a career in commercial aviation, becoming head of Eastern Airlines. No-frills Eastern was America's most profitable carrier in the late 1930s and early 1940s, thanks to Rickenbacker's determination to minimize costs. In this, at least, he was ahead of his time.

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