TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin,Paul D.
TI  - Secret heroes: everyday Americans who shaped our world 
SN  - 0062096044 (pbk.)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - William Morrow
KW  - Heroes
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
N1  - 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
ER  -