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Secret heroes : everyday Americans who shaped our world / Paul Martin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : William Morrow, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 337 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0062096044 (pbk.)
  • 9780062096043 (pbk.)
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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: Gelden Rule Jones -- Healer of the fallen: Jonathan Letterman -- Warrior with the conscience: HughThompson.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Secret Heroes is a remarkable compendium by Paul Martin, former Executive Editor of National Geographic Traveler, that illuminates the lives of thirty forgotten American heroes. Gathering together remarkable stories about unknown champions, explorers, inventors, and innovators who never made the pages of American history textbooks--not George Washington, but the tailor who saved his life...twice; the first African-American combat pilot; the 62-year-old female muckraking journalist who refused to turn her back on injustice--Secret Heroes is just the sort of fascinating and fun popular history that readers love, not unlike Kenneth C. Davis's bestselling Don't Know Much About® series and Rick Beyer's The Greatest Stories Never Told.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-336).

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: Gelden Rule Jones -- Healer of the fallen: Jonathan Letterman -- Warrior with the conscience: HughThompson.

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