"The author, Theodore Taylor, speaks of Jesse Brown's flight metaphorically as this is his biography of Brown. And what a bio this is! Brown was the naval aviator who was raised poor but well and known as the U.S. Navy's first Afro-American aviator. He was a man who could be anyone's friend and his manner of death in a Corsair during the Marine's retreat from the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War is a tale well worth the telling. Like many, though not enough authors writing history, Taylor brings in the human dimension so readers obtain understanding along with knowledge." --SeattlePi "A compelling portrait of a quiet hero, of the racial climate between 1926 and 1959, and of the last days of propeller-driven naval aviation." -- Booklist.