American Heroes
Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America

This is one of those books where they came up with a title that they thought would sell books, and didn't care that it doesn't really describe the book. This is not a collection of profiles about "American Heroes"; it is a collection of essays on American history (some of these are profiles, some ar......more

What an odd little book. The cover is misleading. A selection of essays about or in regard to various figures in the history of the American continent - or maybe the "New World" is a better description. There seems to have been an attempt to link this collection together by an oblique definition or......more

I wouldn't say the title or cover are accurate, but what the content actually turned out to be was still interesting. (I mostly found it to be exploration of culture in Puritan communities, around Quakers, and surrounding the founding of the United States, respectively.)......more

As many other reviewers have written, the title and cover of this book do not accurately depict what this collection of essays are about. The essays generally cover the colonial period in New England, with a few sprinkled in about Washington and Franklin late in the book. The idea that the central t......more

The book consists of a collection of essays, many previously published, but a few new ones as well. Morgan’s goal in putting together this book was to focus on more ordinary people, so while there are chapters discussing Ben Franklin and George Washington, the majority of chapters focus on people wh......more