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Secret Heroes电子书

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作       者:Martin, Paul

出  版  社:William Morrow Paperbacks

出版时间:2012-04-01

字       数:45.8万

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Not all American heroes appear in the standard history texts. Their achievements aren't celebrated like the monumental exploits of presidents, generals, and founding fathers. But for as long as this great nation has existed, ordinary citizens have done extraordinary things. In Secret Heroes, author Paul Martin spotlights thirty overlooked Americans, all of whom had an impact on their world and ours, including:Hercules Mulligan, the New York tailor and spy who saved George Washington's life . . . twice!Jimmie Angel, the gold-seeking bush pilot who, in 1933, discovered the world's highest waterfall in Venezuela.Carl Akeley, a pioneering taxidermist who killed a leopard with his bare hands and inspired Africa's first national park.Eliza Scidmore, who convinced the government to plant cherry trees in Washington, D.C. . . . after twenty-four years of lobbying!
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Part I: 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

Part II: 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

Part III: 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 a Conscience: Hugh Thompson

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Sources

About the Author

Also by Paul Martin

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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