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Secret Heroes is a remarkable compendium by Paul Martin, former Executive Editor of National Geographic Traveler, that illuminates the lives of thirty forgotten American heroes. Gathering together remarkable stories about unknown champions, explorers, inventors, and innovators who never made the pages of American history textbooks—not George Washington, but the tailor who saved his life…twice; the first African-American combat pilot; the 62-year-old female muckraking journalist who refused to turn her back on injustice—Secret Heroes is just the sort of fascinating and fun popular history that readers love, not unlike Kenneth C. Davis’s bestselling Don’t Know Much About® series and Rick Beyer’s The Greatest Stories Never Told.
Discover the remarkable Americans history textbooks left out:
- Civil War Spies: Meet the Union spy who worked in Jefferson Davis’s Confederate White House and the tailor who saved George Washington’s life on two separate occasions.
- African-American History: Discover the stories of the first African-American combat pilot and the formerly enslaved woman who became an entrepreneur and one of America's first self-made female millionaires.
- Hidden Figures in History: Uncover the stories of the muckraking journalist who terrified politicians and the forgotten hero who single-handedly stopped the My Lai massacre.
- History of Innovation: Learn about the woman who brought Washington D.C.’s cherry trees to the capital and the grocer who invented the modern self-service supermarket.
Secret Heroes is a remarkable compendium by Paul Martin, former Executive Editor of National Geographic Traveler, that illuminates the lives of thirty forgotten American heroes. Gathering together remarkable stories about unknown champions, explorers, inventors, and innovators who never made the ...
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A book and magazine editor with the National Geographic Society for three decades, Paul Martin spent the last ten years as executive editor of National Geographic Traveler. Earlier in his career, he served as a military journalist in Vietnam and was assistant editor of Outdoors magazine and managing editor of Continuing Education for the Family Physician. Martin lives near Washington, D.C. When not writing, he builds acoustic guitars. Readers can meet all thirty of the characters in Secret Heroes at http://www.paulmartinbooks.com.
A book and magazine editor with the National Geographic Society for three decades, Paul Martin spent the last ten years as executive editor of National Geographic Traveler. Earlier in his career, he served as a military journalist in Vietnam and was assistant editor of Outdoors magazine and manag...
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