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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780060782405
ISBN: 0060782404
Label: Harper Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: May 01, 2006
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Release Date: May 02, 2006
Sales Rank: 836692
Studio: Harper Paperbacks
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Product Description:
Here is the American adventure. This extraordinary volume captures a magnificent nation's spirit and the fortitude of those who helped to make it so. Drawn from remarkable firsthand accounts and historical writings, American Courage gives voice to the pilgrims, founding fathers, revolutionaries, pioneers, soldiers, and pilots, among other heroes, in a remarkable collection of harrowing tales, spanning from the Mayflower's landing througSeptember 11, 2001. - A Plymoutcolonist is held captive during King Philip's War.
- George Washington crosses the Delaware.
- Davy Crockett reports from inside the Alamo.
- General Longstreet recounts Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.
- Sergeant York single-handedly captures 132 German soldiers.
- Charles Lindbergflies across the Atlantic.
- Nine Little Rock students desegregate Central HigSchool.
- Passengers on Flight 93 overpower hijackers on 9/11.
With more than forty thrilling true accounts of bravery, selflessness, and daring, the stories in American Courage reveal the heart and soul of our country.
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This book should be required reading for all American high school students. Herbert Warden has compiled a collection of stories that exemplifies bravery at its finest. While each story has a common thread of bravery, each story also has a unique characteristic that makes this person's actions courageous. Each person demonstrated personal character that made them stand out from others.
As you read each story you can't help but feel the strength that was required in order to accomplish ... Read More
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I received this book as a Christmas gift and let it sit unopened for 2 months. When I picked it up and read Mark Twain's account of his trip down the Mississippi, I was hooked. These are the stories of famous and not so famous American people from the Pilgrims to 9/11. Their first hand accounts put you, the reader, in their time and allow you to feel what they saw and did. Whether you read about Washington crossing the Deleware, or Longstreet at Pickett's Charge, or gunfights in the old west, or ... Read More
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Herbert Warden, a Marine Corps veteran of World War II and the Korean War, has put together a collection of stories of Americans showing personal bravery in a variety of tough situations. Warden sees the stories as exemplifying the true spirit of Americans; the reader need not agree with Warden to find the collection worthwhile, even a little humbling.
The story "We Must All Hang Together, or Assuredly We Must All Hang Separately" details the price paid by the original signers for their ... Read More
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