Library of American heroes

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General Billy Mitchell

A biography of the general, Billy Mitchell, whose insistence that the United States change its defense policy and stress air power resulted in his court-martial and professional ruin.

Jane Addams

A biography of Jane Addams, describing her founding of Hull House and her efforts to abolish child labor, establish juvenile courts, and find employment for the poor.

John F. Kennedy

1969
A biography of the thirty-fifth and youngest President of the United States stressing his private as well as public achievements.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Frederick Douglass

1969
A biography of a Negro who became an influential voice against slavery in America, founded and operated a newspaper to further abolition, and became Minister to Haiti and one of Abraham Lincoln's advisers.
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