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.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
William Morrow,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 337 pages ; 21 cm |
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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 : Golden Rule Jones
- Healer of the fallen : Jonathan Letterman
- Warrior with the conscience : Hugh Thompson.