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The Mammoth Book of Heroes(1st Edition)
True Tales of Courage from Ancient Times to September 11, 2001 (Mammoth Books)
by Jon E., Thomas Carlyle, William Hazlitt, Toby Harnden, Kai Friese, Maurice Weaver, E. Cobham Brewer, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, F. E. Whitton, John Foxe, William Cobbett, Charles A. Lindbergh, Alistair Maclean, Lady Constance Lytton, William Shakespeare, Tom Wolfe, Jim Corbett, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Shackleton, Winston S. Churchill, Jon E. Lewis
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2002 by Carroll & Graf
ISBN-13: 978-0-7867-1067-6, ISBN: 0-7867-1067-5
"Whoever is heroic will always find crises to try their edge,” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes in his essay “Heroism,” and popular Mammoth editor Jon E. Lewis has chosen crises throughout history that have tested human courage to the extreme. Heroism has inspired writers from Livy (on Horatius at the bridge) to Tom Wolfe (on Chuck Yaeger’s breaking the sound barrier), from Plato (on the death of Socrates) to St. John (on the crucifixion of Ch ..."
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