Hero Tales

How Common Lives Reveal the Uncommon Genius of America

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

Av H. C. Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, H.C. Lodge

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Hero Tales is a collection of twenty-six stories that convey lessons of courage and self-sacrifice without preaching. These stories were instrumental in lionizing such men as Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and George Rogers Clark in the American mind.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-03-16
Mått139 x 215 x 18 mm
Vikt469 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor234
FörlagTurner Publishing Company
ISBN9781681629230

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