High peaks
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High peaks
Resource Information
The work High peaks represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- High peaks
- Statement of responsibility
- C.V. Whitney
- Subject
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- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries | General
- Biography
- Electronic books
- Millionaires
- Millionaires -- United States -- Biography
- Philanthropists
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General
- United States
- United States -- Biography
- Whitney, C. V., (Cornelius Vanderbilt), 1899-1992
- Whitney, C. V., (Cornelius Vanderbilt), 1899-1992
- Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Rarely is one allowed such an intimate glimpse into the ""high peaks"" of a life so extraordinary and exciting as that of C.V. Whitney. Scion of a distinguished family of great wealth, ""Sonny"" Whitney early displayed the zest for life and the adventurous spirit which have led him into a varied array of achievements remarkable even for the Whitney clan. A pilot in World War I and an AAF officer in World War II who was involved in such events as Iwo Jima and El Alamein, Whitney later, as assistant secretary of the air force, played a crucial role in ending the Berlin blockade. A sportsman with
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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