American Courage: Remarkable True Stories Exhibiting the Bravery that Has Made Out Country Great.E178 2004-063570 0-06-078239-0 American courage; remarkable true stories exhibiting the bravery that has made out country great. Title main entry. Ed. by Herbert W. Warden. William Morrow
379 p. $25.95 Warden, editor of a nautical anthology and former Marine in WWII WWII abbr. World War II WWII World War Two and Korea, collects mainly first-person accounts that reveal the American spirit over the past 400 years, from William Bradford's account of the Mayflower's voyage to the hardships of the pioneer West, the world wars, and the heroism of September 11th. In addition to well-known figures, such as Benjamin Franklin and escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, the collection presents the less-known voices of nine African-American high school students on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of desegregation desegregation: see integration. in Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas required military intervention to desegregate schools (1957–1958). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 556–557] See : Bigotry , and the story of an elegant female spy who infiltrated Nazi-controlled France. There is no subject index. |
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