Historic BoyhoodsRecounts the boyhoods of 21 famous men, including Washington, Lincoln, Napoleon, Daniel Boone, Mozart, Bismarck, Garibaldi, Lafayette, Robert Fulton, Andrew Jackson, and many others. |
Contents
Christopher Columbus | 9 |
Michael Angelo | 21 |
Walter Raleigh | 35 |
Peter the Great | 48 |
Frederick the Great | 59 |
George Washington | 73 |
Daniel Boone | 87 |
John Paul Jones | 99 |
Andrew Jackson | 159 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | 174 |
Walter Scott | 188 |
J Fenimore Cooper | 201 |
John Ericsson | 214 |
Garibaldi | 225 |
Abraham Lincoln | 238 |
Charles Dickens | 251 |
Mozart | 109 |
Lafayette | 122 |
Horatio Nelson | 136 |
Robert Fulton | 148 |
Otto Von Bismarck | 264 |
AfterwordHelping Your Children Choose Their Heroes Through Reading by Adam Starchild | 273 |
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