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Heroes and pioneers

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-385) and index

collective biography

illustrations

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non fiction

Heroes and pioneers

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Alphabetical articles profile men and women who have been leaders in many fields, including Arthur Ashe, Amelia Earhart, Andrew Jackson, Helen Keller, Nelson Mandela, and Rigoberta Menchu Tum, among many others

Elisabeth Abegg -- John Adams -- Sir John William Alcock -- Muhammed Ali -- Ethan Allen -- Susan B. Anthony -- Corazon Aquino --Oscar Arias Sánchez -- Neil Armstrong -- Arthur Ashe -- Asoka -- Aung San Su Kyi -- Violeta Barrios de Chamorro -- Steve Biko --Simón Bolívar -- Daniel Boone -- William Booth -- Omar Bradley -- Louis Braille -- Robert Bruce -- Richard Evelyn Bird and Roald Amundsen -- Jimmy Carter -- César Chávez -- Winston Churchill -- El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) -- William Clark -- Clovis, King of the Franks -- Christopher Columbus -- Crazy Horse -- Davy Crockett -- Dalai Lama -- Frederik Willem de Klerk -- Stephen Decatur --John Dewey -- Dorothea Dix -- Frederick Douglass -- Arnold Douwes -- Charles Richard Drew -- W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois -- Jean-Henri Dunant -- Amelia Earhart -- Charles Eastman -- Dwight D. (Ike) Eisenhower -- Leif Eriksson and Erik the Red -- Thomas Gallaudet -- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi -- Yuri Gargarin --William Lloyd Garrison -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Nathanael Greene -- Nathan Hale -- Alexander Hamilton -- John Hancock -- Václav Havel -- Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla -- Daniel Ken Inouye and Hiram Leong Fong -- Andrew Jackson -- Thomas Jefferson -- Mae Carol Jemison -- Joan of Arc -- John Paul Jones -- Chief Joseph -- Helen Keller --Jomo Kenyatta -- Joseph Robert Kerrey -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- T.E. (Thomas Edward) Lawrence -- Robert E. Lee -- Meriwether Lewis -- Abraham Lincoln -- Charles A. Lindbergh -- Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli -- Carl (Charles) Lutz -- Douglas MacArthur -- James Madison -- Malcolm X -- Nelson Mandela -- George Catlett Marshall -- Thurgood Marshall and Sandra Day O'Connor --John Sidney McCain -- Rigoberta Menchú Tum -- Chico Mendes -- James Monroe -- Mother Teresa -- Horatio Nelson -- Eliot Ness -- Alexander Nevsky -- Giuseppe Nicolini -- Florence Nightingale -- Nina Otero-Warren -- Jesse Owens -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Rosa Parks -- George Patton -- Robert E. Peary -- Adolfo Pérez Esquival -- Allan Pinkerton -- Marco Polo -- Colin Powell --Benjamin O. Davis -- Manuel Luis Quezon -- Paul Revere -- Richard I, King of England -- Jacob Riis -- Jackie Robinson -- Oscar Romero -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt -- José de San Martin -- Oskar Schindler -- Anton Schmid -- Norman Schwarzkopf -- Albert Schweitzer -- Elizabeth Ann Seton --Sitting Bull -- John Smith -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Tecumseh -- Harriet Tubman -- Desmond Tutu -- Lech Walesa -- Raoul Wallenberg -- Booker T. Washington -- George Washington -- Joseph Weill -- Elie Wiesel -- Simon Wiesenthal -- Sarah Winnemucca -- Hsüan-tsang -- Alvin C. York

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