This book provides role models of heroism via profiles of twenty heroes and heroines. Also included are ten legends that provide outstanding examples of heroism. The biographical sketches represent four categories: heroes in history, heroines in history, junior military heroes, and senior military heroes.
Although the subject of this book is heroism, these individuals displayed other strong personal characteristics, including perseverance, motivation, determination, resilience, creativity, and courage as discussed in other books in the Human Values Series. We can learn from these individuals to become more successful in our own lives.
About the Author: Emerson Klees is the editor / publisher of Cameo Press. He is also the author of thirty books, half about New York State and the Finger Lakes Region and half collective biographies of role models of human values, such as perseverance, motivation, determination, resilience, and creativity. He has a B.S. in electrical engineering, Penn State University, major: electronics, a M.B.A. from New York University, major: management, minor: statistics, and a M.A. in English literature (creative writing track) from the State University of New York at Brockport. For six years, he was an adjunct professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology College of Business teaching courses in entrepreneurship and business organization.
He is a member of the New Society of the Genesee Historical Association, past member of the New York State Historical Society and the Rochester / Monroe County Freedom Trail Commission, as well as past member and vice president of the New York State Regional Publishers Association. His awards include two first places and two second places in the E. H. Corron National Historical Essay Contest.
