Born on a farm near Herman, Nebraska, Bill Burkett was popular in school, president of nearly everything, darling of all the girls and well-liked even by the boys. He wrote a "History of America" for the Mt. Rushmore Presidential monument, winning a national prize. He earned a law degree in college, then served in the Coast Guard during World War II. He reached his long-cherished goal--being a Treasury agent for the Internal Revenue Bureau, convicting...