Secret heroes everyday Americans who shaped our world
Pays tribute to forgotten heroes who still have an impact on the world today, profiling such characters as America's first muckraking journalist, the first black combat pilot, and a man who saved George Washington's life twice.
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New York :
William Morrow,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Voyagers: The intrepid Leopard Wrestler: Carl Akeley
- On the wings of an angel: Jimmie Angel
- The explorer with the red umbrella: Giacomo Beltrami
- The genetics of truth: Kirk Bloodsworth
- The slave who became a Union spy: Mary Bowser
- The black swallow of death: Eugene Bullard
- The last stone age man in America: Ishi
- General Washington's genial savior: Hercules Mulligan
- A captive in two cultures: Cynthia Ann Parker
- An act of valor denied: James Parker
- The Yank who united Canada: William van Horne
- Innovators: why we are what we eat: Wilbur Atwater
- Mythmaker of the Old West: John Wallace Crawford
- The inquisitive benefactor: George Fabyan
- Sealing the victory at Gettysburg: Herman Haupt
- Keeping Eisenhower's invasion afloat: Andrew Jackson Higgins
- The lovely with the lovely brain: Hedwig Kiesler
- Choctaw code talker of World War I: Solomon Louis
- A thorn in the side of convention: Anne Royall
- The man behind the checkout counter: Clarence Saunders
- An idea that bloomed to perfection: Eliza Scidmore
- Dispenser of beauty and truth: Madam C. J. Walker
- Humanitarians: Defender of the defenseless: Grace Abbott
- The man who fed Asia: Henry Beachell
- America's Joan of Arc: Inez Boissevain
- A saint's unassuming assistant: Joseph Dutton
- A life's labor of love: Gertrude Elion
- The mayor who just wanted to be fair: Golden Rule Jones
- Healer of the fallen: Jonathan Letterman
- Warrior with a conscience: Hugh Thompson.
