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Index
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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