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		"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

	Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians
	Susan Ware (Editor), David McCullough (Foreword)

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Format: Hardcover - LARGE PRINT BOOK,

Edition: LARGEPRINT

Publisher: Thorndike Press

ISBN: 0783888414

Release Date: Jan 1, 2000

In Brief
In Forgotten Heroes, thirty-five of the country's leading historians recount their favorite stories of underappreciated Americans.

From The Publisher
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.

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	Foreword
	Timeline
	Introduction: Historians' Forgotten Heroes	1
	John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)	9
	Henry Knox's Wilderness Epic	17
	Mary Dyer: Religious Martyr	27
	Robert Basset: A Drumbeat for Liberty	35
	Thomas Peters: Millwright and Deliverer	45
	James A. Bayard: Savior of the Constitution	57
	John Quincy Adams: The Failed President Whose Real Triumphs Should Be Known	67
	Nicholas Trist: The Disobedient Diplomat	75
	George Drouillard: Mountain Man	85
	Susie King Taylor: A Black Woman's Civil War	95
	Myra Colby Bradwell: Champion of Women's Legal Rights	103
	Victoria Woodhull: Free Love in the Feminine, First-Person Singular	111
	Emmeline B. Wells: Mormon Feminist and Journalist	121
	The Amazing Dummy	129
	John McLuckie: Burgess of Homestead	143
	Florence Kelley Campaigns against Sweatshops in the 1890s	153
	George Dewey: Naval Hero and Political Disaster	161
	Local Hero: J. C. M. Hanson and the Politics of Library Classification	169
	William Chandler Bagley: Dr. Know of American Education	177
	O. Delight Smith: A Labor Organizer's Odyssey	185
	"Brave about Words": Margaret Anderson and the Ulysses Trial	195
	Ned Cobb: He Stood His Ground	203
	Carlo Tresca: "Every Inch a Fighter"	211
	Alice Paul: Friend and Foe of the Equal Rights Amendment	221
	Samuel Seabury: The Man Who Rode the Tiger	231
	Edward Prichard: Forgotten New Dealer	241
	Caroline F. Ware: Crusader for Social Justice	251
	Lew Ayres: Conscience in Hollywood	259
	The Trials of Miriam Van Waters	269
	Pauli Murray and the Killing of Jane Crow	279
	Sam Phillips: Southern Visionary	289
	Hazel Brannon Smith: White Martyr for Civil Rights	301
	Gertrude Ederle: "America's Best Girl"	309
	"Manila John" of Guadalcanal: Hero of the Pacific War	319
	Frederick Funston: A Song of Rage	329
	Suggestions for Further Reading	339
	About the Contributors	345
	Acknowledgements	351
	Index

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