Synopsis
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.
About Paul Martin
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Paul Martin spent three decades as a book and magazine editor with the National Geographic Society, the last 20 years as executive editor of National Geographic Traveler. His assignments have taken him around the world. Early in his career, he spent a year in Vietnam as a military journalist and was the assistant editor of Outdoors and managing editor of Continuing Education for the Family Physician magazines. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Martin lives in Northern Virginia. When not writing, he builds acoustic guitars.
Published April 10, 2012
by William Morrow Paperbacks.
353 pages
Genres:
History, Biographies & Memoirs.
Non-fiction
