The Small and the Mighty

From America's favorite government professor, an honest and inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage shaped the character of our country.

In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who do not appear in textbooks. Not presidents, but telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the teachers. Through careful research, he uncovers history's little-known figures and brings their rich and fascinating stories to light for the first time. You'll meet a woman riding a white horse on Pennsylvania Avenue, a young inmate in a Japanese prison camp, a former slave on a mission to find his daughter, a poet on a train, and a teacher learning to work with her. enemies . More than one thing is bombed and many people become fabulously rich. Some rich in money, others rich in things that matter more.

This book is about what really made America - and Americans - great. McMahon's unlikely champions will become familiar friends, illuminating the path we travel in our quest to make the world fairer, more peaceful, better and freer.