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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Wilmington, Delaware :
ISI Books,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
