Secret heroes
Subtitle: everyday Americans who shaped our world
By: Paul Martin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780062096043
Subjects: Heroes; Biography
Description: Pays tribute to forgotten heroes who still have an impact on the world today, profiling such characters as America's first muckraking journalist, the first black combat pilot, and a man who saved George Washington's life twice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-336).
Table of contents: title: Voyagers: The intrepid Leopard Wrestler: Carl Akeley --; title: On the wings of an angel: Jimmie Angel --; title: The explorer with the red umbrella: Giacomo Beltrami --; title: The genetics of truth: Kirk Bloodsworth --; title: The slave who became a Union spy: Mary Bowser --; title: The black swallow of death: Eugene Bullard --; title: The last stone age man in America: Ishi --; title: General Washington's genial savior: Hercules Mulligan --; title: A captive in two cultures: Cynthia Ann Parker --; title: An act of valor denied: James Parker --; title: The Yank who united Canada: William van Horne --; title: Innovators: why we are what we eat: Wilbur Atwater --; title: Mythmaker of the Old West: John Wallace Crawford --; title: The inquisitive benefactor: George Fabyan --; title: Sealing the victory at Gettysburg: Herman Haupt --; title: Keeping Eisenhower's invasion afloat: Andrew Jackson Higgins --; title: The lovely with the lovely brain: Hedwig Kiesler --; title: Choctaw code talker of World War I: Solomon Louis --; title: A thorn in the side of convention: Anne Royall --; title: The man behind the checkout counter: Clarence Saunders --; title: An idea that bloomed to perfection: Eliza Scidmore --; title: Dispenser of beauty and truth: Madam C. J. Walker --; title: Humanitarians:; title: Defender of the defenseless: Grace Abbott --; title: The man who fed Asia: Henry Beachell --; title: America's Joan of Arc: Inez Boissevain --; title: A saint's unassuming assistant: Joseph Dutton --; title: A life's labor of love: Gertrude Elion --; title: The mayor who just wanted to be fair: Golden Rule Jones --; title: Healer of the fallen: Jonathan Letterman --; title: Warrior with a conscience: HughThompson.