Those Who Know The Sky: Hobey Baker, The Dawn of Aviation, and The War to End All Wars

Hobey Baker and aviation grew up together, while Baker achieved fame as a celebrated athlete, aviation was often associated with failures. A Hall of Fame inductee in football and ice hockey, Baker led Princeton University to national championships in both. Baker volunteered to fly in World War I and became engaged to a socialite.

But the cheering had stopped, his fiancée was engaged to another, and the adrenaline of the recently ended war had subsided. His life ended at 26 in a mysterious pl...