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Contents A Note to Adults 6 A Note to the Young Reader 7 Abraham Lincoln 9 Nellie Bly 13 Thomas Alva Edison 17 Albert Einstein 21 Helen Keller 25 Eleanor Roosevelt 29 Georgia O'Keeffe 33 Jim Thorpe 37 Norman Vincent Peale 41 Chien-Shiung Wu 45 Jackie Robinson 49 Maya Angelou 53 Martin Luther King, Jr. 57 Sandra Day O'Connor ø 61 Toni Morrison 65 Bill Cosby 69 Marian Wright Edelman 73 Wilma Rudolph 77 Arthur Ashe 81 Ben Carson 85 Gloria Estefan 89 Ellen Ochoa 93 Michael Jordan 97 Sammy Sosa 101 Heather Whitestone 105 A Final Thought 109 Bibliography 110
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Heroes -- United States -- Biography.
Successful people -- United States -- Biography.
Achievement motivation -- United States.
Achievement motivation in youth -- United States.
Courage.