The 100 Greatest HeroesA celebration of heroes who exemplify courage under fire features profiles of such figures as Rudy Giuliani, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Jr., George Washington, Margaret Chase Smith, Clara Barton, and Colin Powell. |
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Contents
George Washington | 1 |
Abraham Lincoln | 4 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 7 |
Winston Churchill | 10 |
Ronald Reagan | 13 |
Alexander the Great | 16 |
Christopher Columbus | 19 |
Martin Luther | 22 |
Amelia Earhart | 160 |
General James H Jimmy Doolittle | 163 |
Admiral Chester W Nimitz | 166 |
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut | 169 |
Colin Powell | 172 |
Nathan Hale | 175 |
Alexander Hamilton | 178 |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | 181 |
Samuel Adams | 25 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | 28 |
Dwight D Eisenhower | 31 |
Theodore Roosevelt | 34 |
Ulysses S Grant | 37 |
Pope John Paul II | 40 |
George W Bush | 43 |
Harry S Truman | 46 |
George C Marshall | 49 |
Mikhail Gorbachev | 52 |
Lech Walesa | 55 |
Boris Yeltsin | 58 |
John F Kennedy | 61 |
John Glenn | 64 |
Neil Armstrong | 67 |
Susan B Anthony | 71 |
Senator Margaret Chase Smith | 74 |
Whitaker Chambers E88 | 77 |
Simón Bolívar | 80 |
David BenGurion | 83 |
Charles A Lindbergh | 86 |
John Paul Jones | 90 |
Sergeant Alvin York | 93 |
Sergeant Audie Murphy | 96 |
General Douglas MacArthur | 99 |
Davy Crockett | 103 |
King George VI | 106 |
Charles de Gaulle | 109 |
Joan of Arc | 112 |
Clara Barton | 115 |
Elizabeth Blackwell | 118 |
Anne Hutchinson | 121 |
William Bradford | 124 |
Fiorello La Guardia | 127 |
Raoul Wallenberg | 130 |
Ira Hayes | 133 |
Harriet Tubman | 136 |
Galileo Galilei | 139 |
Martin Luther King Jr | 142 |
Sir Thomas More | 145 |
Andrew Jackson | 148 |
Thomas Jefferson | 151 |
Meriwether Lewis | 154 |
John Quincy Adams | 157 |
Admiral Horatio Nelson | 184 |
Admiral George Dewey | 187 |
Moshe Dayan | 190 |
Golda Meir | 193 |
William Wild Bill Donovan | 196 |
Lord Louis Mountbatten | 199 |
Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi | 202 |
Ralph Bunche | 205 |
Theodore Roosevelt Jr | 208 |
Captain Edward Eddie Rickenbacker | 211 |
Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino NYPD | 215 |
Melvin Purvis | 218 |
Lou Gehrig | 221 |
George Herman Babe Ruth | 224 |
Joe Louis | 227 |
Branch Rickey | 230 |
Jackie Robinson | 233 |
Admiral Richard E Byrd | 236 |
Eleanor Roosevelt | 239 |
Margaret Thatcher | 242 |
Anwar elSadat | 245 |
Edward R Murrow | 248 |
General George S Patton | 251 |
General Omar N Bradley | 254 |
General Jonathan Wainwright | 257 |
Rudolph Rudy Giuliani | 260 |
Chief Sitting Bull | 263 |
Eugene V Debs | 266 |
Jane Addams | 269 |
Willy Brandt | 272 |
Haile Selassie | 275 |
General Gouverneur Kemble Warren | 278 |
John McCain III | 281 |
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North | 284 |
Howard Hughes | 287 |
Vaclav Havel | 290 |
Todd Beamer | 293 |
Sergeant Nathan Ross Chapman | 296 |
Sir William Stephenson | 299 |
Bob Hope | 302 |
Further Reading | 305 |
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About the Author 322 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The 100 Greatest Heroes |
| Author | Harry Paul Jeffers |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Citadel Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0806524766, 9780806524764 |
| Length | 322 pages |
| Subjects | › Reference / General |
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