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"Knowing the best of the past, you can face the future resolute and unafraid."
With this statement of promise and hope, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, one of the great people and most beloved writers of her time, offers this, her last testament, to young Americans. Here she gives us her personal selection of great moments in the lives of American heroes—George Washington, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Nathan Hale, John Paul Jones, Dorothea Dix, and other men and women—who inspired and strengthened her by their courage, their idealism, and, frequently, their struggle against great odds.
About this book she said: "It seems right to dedicate this last book I shall ever write to the boys and girls in our schools and make it a collection of true, true stories about real people who have given us all reason to feel proud that we, too, are American citizens."
—from the dust jacket
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