The 100 Greatest Heroes

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Citadel Press, 2003 - 322 pages
A 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
Index
313
About the Author 322
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