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Heroes For My Daughter (2012)

by Brad Meltzer(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0061905267 (ISBN13: 9780061905261)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Harper

review 1: This was a quick read over successful people from around the globe in the past few hundred years. I really appreciated that it focused on how they didn't give into failure. Each of these famous individuals had their own set of challenges and hurdles. Which, nearly all of them I couldn't imagine facing. Also, the author took only two pages to cover each "Hero." Therefore, it was like an introduction to the person, going over all the major highs and lows of the person's life. There were a few people I am glad I didn't waste more time reading about and they were a few people I would love to invest more time learning of their story.Favorite quotes:"whether women are better than men I cannot say.... but I can say they are certainly no worse." -Golda Meir (Israel's first P... morerime Minister)"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit." -Helen Keller"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking; a workman to execute with perseverance and labour: - but besides this, there is a love for the marvelous, a belief in the marvelous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore." -Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein)
review 2: My grandmother gave this book to my daughter. She is still too young to appreciate it, but I'm not. The author wrote the book as inspiration for his own daughter, as she grew and determined the kind of person she wanted to be. Each page is a brief summary of an important woman (in the author's view), and described the reason they were considered for the book. While most of the women profiled in the book were known to me, I did learn a few things about them I hadn't known before. I especially like that the author summarizes, on each page, what he hopes his daughter can glean from the womens' stories. less

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