Presents the profiles of fifty famous American heroes from several backgrounds such as political, medical, environmental, presidential, and scientific. Also includes the authors' web site for additional information on each hero.

Jane Addams -- Susan B. Anthony -- Clara Barton -- Mary McLeod Bethune -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Rachel Carson -- Jimmy Carter -- George Washington Carver -- Mary Cassatt -- Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta -- Roberto Clemente -- Bill Cosby -- Walt Disney -- Frederick Douglass -- Thomas Alva Edison -- Albert Einstein -- Benjamin Franklin -- John Glenn -- Martha Graham -- Matthew Henson -- Milton Hershey -- Langston Hughes -- Thomas Jefferson -- Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee -- The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- Robert E. Lee -- Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and Sacagawea -- Abraham Lincoln -- Yo-Yo Ma -- George C. Marshall -- John Muir -- Sandra Day O'Connor -- Rosa Parks -- I. M. Pei -- Christopher Reeve -- Cal Ripken Jr -- Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey -- Roy Rogers and Dale Evans -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Jonas Salk -- Tecumseh -- Harry S. Truman -- Harriet Tubman -- George Washington -- Ida B. Wells -- Elie Wiesel -- Wilbur and Orville Wright.