Introduction: What Is a Hero?
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God’s Heroes: Deborah, Judith, Samson and David
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Earthshakers: Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar
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Feminist Fire and Slaughter: Boudica
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Exemplary Heroes: Henry V and Joan of Arc
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Heroism in the Age of the Axe: St. Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey, Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Ralegh
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In the Roar of the Cannon’s Mouth: Washington, Nelson and Wellington
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Tortured Heroism in a Man’s World: Jane Welsh Carlyle and Emily Dickinson
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Two Kinds of Nobility: Lincoln and Lee
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Cerebral Heroism: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The Heroism of the Hostess: Lady Pamela Berry et al.
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A Generous Hero and a Heroic Monster: Churchill and de Gaulle
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Heroism Behind the Greasepaint: Mae West and Marilyn Monroe
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The Heroic Trinity Who Tamed the Bear: Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II
Epilogue: Any Future for Heroism?
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