“It is a good thing for all Americans, and it is an especially good thing for young Americans, to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen, and to keep in mind the feats of daring and personal prowess done in time past by some of the many

The target audience for this book is probably teenage boys. I found the one-sided glamorized character sketches uninspiring and the carefully detailed battle scenes quite tedious. I suppose someone more interested in military machinations would enjoy it more especially if they are not familiar with

Shows positives and negatives of TR. He does great research, tells stories well, and shows great respect for history & tradition, but borders on war worship, and those beliefs haunted his post-presidential years.

This book suffers from being dated in its language, both in in terms of offensiveness, e.g. Indian country, the ‘n-word’, etc. and its specific focus on white men. Though I suppose a book written in the late 19th century would be shackled by the vernacular of the times. And, though its tales are lim

Not Outdated

This book reads like a patriotic USA version of Plutarch's "Lives." The stories are numerous and short in length but well-written. It is a fun read and despite the title sounding like a children's book, you will learn a good bit.

I read this book in preparation for reading Gumption by Nick Offerman. The two books serve similar premises, but perhaps written 100 years apart. Each chapter is of a different person in history — all of which men — and typically heroes of war. This is to be expected of a book from this period.

I was

Beginning with the 1st President of the United States, George Washington and ending with the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, Hero Tales from American History gives a summery history of a few great Americans. The histories were written more to inspire patriotism than to relay real fact; the book pai

I chose this book because I'm planning to read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States," and I wanted to first read an archetypical example of the sort of "great dead white men" history to which Zinn's book is a response or counterpoint. An unabashedly jingoistic work designed to insp