Heroes I have known : twelve who lived great lives / by Max Eastman.
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New York :
Simon and Schuster,
[1942]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Hero worship benign and diabolic
- The hero as parent: my most unforgettable character [Annis Ford Eastman]--The hero as agitator: a life portrait of Carlo Tresca
- Greek drama in Cleveland: the trial of Eugene Debs
- Heroism plus heroics: difficulties in worshiping Isadora Duncan
- Humor in goodness: the constitutional perfection of Art Young
- Mark Twain's Elmira: the influence of a great preacher [Thomas K. Beecher] and his parish
- France and her man of letters: an enthusiasm involving Anatole France
- Actor of one role: a character study of Charlie Chaplin
- Contribution to an apotheosis: John Reed and the Russian revolution
- Great in time of storm: the character and fate of Leon Trotsky
- Visit in Vienna: the crochety greatness of Sigmund Freud
- The hero as teacher: the life story of John Dewey
- Epilogue.