Reviews for Forgotten Heroes

The average rating for Forgotten Heroes based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-06-04 00:00:00 Alex Yell I read this book as a counterweight to another book that was a series of short pieces on little-known American bad guys. It sort of served that purpose... For some reason, reading these accounts of those that various writers designated as heroes/heroines actually depressed me. This was because many of their lives were hard fought against people who vigorously defended injustice and bigotry...as they still do today. Why is it that in America so many fight so desperately to save evil things? Slavery, now condemned, was defended once to the death. These days Americans are desperately defending owning automatic weapons even though they have been used repeatedly to slaughter innocent children. It's depressing. I guess there will be new heroes and heroines arising from this too. Additionally, this book showed the fleetingness of fame and the fortunes that often accompanied it. It also showed that some 'heroes/heroines' were very flawed human beings. Sadly I note this: out of 35 biographical pieces, only three involved men writing about women or women about men. Apparently their subjects drew the most attention from those of their own sex and possibly color. There's a statement there. This book is good in giving information about little-known historical occurrences and people, but I am not a big enthusiast for historical accounts of American civil liberties, feminist, sports, war, black issues, etc. Anyone who is would probably enjoy reading this.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-01-10 00:00:00 Andy Rogers This book was a really cool random find. I love reading about US History and this profiled some very interesting people that missed getting into the history text books. There were a few people that were profiled that I wouldn't necessarily call Heroes but they were certainly very interesting people that had a long term impact on America in some way.