Forgotten heroes
Subtitle: inspiring American portraits from our leading historians
By: edited by Susan Ware ; with a foreword by David McCullough.
Contributors: Ware, Susan, 1950-
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Heroes -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: Historians and biographers regularly come across stories of little-known or forgotten heroes, and this book provides a chance to rescue some of the best of them. In Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five of the country's leading historians recount their favorite stories of underappreciated Americans.

From Stephen Jay Gould on deaf baseball player Dummy Hoy; to William Leuchtenburg on the truth behind the legendary Johnny Appleseed; to Christine Stansell on Margaret Anderson, who published James Joyce's Ulysses; these portraits can be read equally for delight, instruction, and inspiration.

Forgotten Heroes includes nearly as many women as men, and nearly as many people from before 1900 as after. It expands the traditional definition of hero to encompass not only military figures and politicians who took risks for great causes, but also educators, religious leaders, reformers, labor leaders, publishers, athletes, and even a man who started a record company.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Society of American Historians book."