Rickenbacker's Luck: An American Life

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0395271029 . An edition in Very Good condition with some wear to the board and spine trim and page edge soiling in an alike dust-jacket that is scuffing, rear soiling and a chipped tear on the upper front edge near the spine; Rickenbacker's Luck: An American Life is the story of one man's improbable journey from poverty to wealth and from obscurity to celebrity. Born in Ohio in 1887, John Glenn was a ragtag youngster with a natural gift for flying. Despite repeated failures, Glenn persisted and, in 1927, became the first American to orbit the Earth. In 1962, he became the first person to orbit the Earth twice. A few years later, Glenn became the first person to orbit the Earth three times. He was also the first American to orbit the Earth in a spacecraft. Rickenbacker's Luck is the story of an American who overcame tremendous odds to achieve great things.; 8vo; 366 pages .