Real heroes inspiring true stories of courage, character, and conviction
What makes someone a hero? Is it fame, power, money, creative talent, athletic ability, good looks? Despite what our culture typically celebrates, none of those things makes a hero. No, heroism springs from character, the critical element that defines a person. The good news is that character is som...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cicero: enemy of the state, friend of liberty -- Cato the Younger: ambition in the service of principle -- Augustine: searching for truth and wisdom -- Anne Hutchinson: the spirit of religious liberty -- Adam Smith: ideas change the world -- Mercy Otis Warren: conscience of great causes -- Edmund Burke: eloquence and conviction -- Thomas Clarkson: a moral steam engine that never quit -- Frédéric Bastiat: liberty's masterful storyteller -- Prudence Crandall: in defiance of racism -- Harriet Tubman: she never lost a passenger -- Black entrepreneurs: models too often forgotten -- Martha Coston, Hetty Green, and Madam C.J. Walker: female pioneers in American business -- William Ewart Gladstone: a decades-long defense of liberty -- George Eastman: genius of invention and enterprise -- Fanny Crosby: blind but not disabled -- Siegfried Sassoon: conscience on and off the battlefield -- Andrew Mellon: unleashing wealth creators -- J. Gresham Machen: god's forgotten libertarian -- Marie Curie: trailblazing scientist -- Prohibition's foes: still teaching lessons today -- Four justices: liberty's saving hands -- Katharine Atholl: a modern-day Cassandra -- Jesse Owens: "character makes the difference when it's close" -- Nicholas Winton: the humblest hero -- Witold Pilecki: bravery beyond measure -- Anne Frank: gratitude in adversity -- Althea Gibson: a winning attitude -- Ludwig Erhard: architect of a miracle -- Gail Halvorsen: the candy bomber -- Joe Louis: fighter on many fronts -- Peter Fechter: death at the wall -- Norval Morey: wealth creation through entrepreneurship -- Jerzy Popieluszko: witness to truth and freedom -- Roberto Clemente: "I learned the right way to live" -- John Patric: hobo, screwball, and hero -- Haingás. Ngor: "to give of your soul" -- Vivien Kellems: "please indict me!" -- Homeschoolers: it's for the children! -- Larry Cooper: never too late for character -- Epilogue. | |
| 520 | 0 | |a What makes someone a hero? Is it fame, power, money, creative talent, athletic ability, good looks? Despite what our culture typically celebrates, none of those things makes a hero. No, heroism springs from character, the critical element that defines a person. The good news is that character is something every one of us can mold; it is simply the sum of the choices we make as we face new challenges and opportunities. And here's even better news: this lively, accessible book gives you real, flesh-and-blood models of character, courage, and conviction-men and women you won't just admire but also can emulate. Author Lawrence W. Reed ranges far and wide in Real Heroes-from major historical figures to remarkable people you've never heard of; from the distant past to the present; from the United States, to Europe, to Asia; from statesmen to scientists, athletes to inventors, entrepreneurs to theologians, writers to teachers. | |
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