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

Paying tribute to the forgotten heroes who still have an impact on the world today, this pop-history compendium profiles such characters as America's first muckraking journalist, the first black combat pilot and Hercules Mulligan, the man who saved George Washington's life twice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, Paul D., 1946-
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2012], ©2012.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xii, 337 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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 the conscience : Hugh Thompson. 
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