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Rescues : the lives of heroes

Lesy, Michael 1945- (Author).

Summary: In this study of heroes and their motivations, Lesy examines the extraordinary deeds of nine heroic people including Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels; two Korean War veterans who received the Congressional Medal of Honor; two young men who, separately, saved neighbors from brutal attackers; a quadriplegic who helped bring about Federal and state laws aiding the disabled; an African-American involved in the 1960s civil rights movement in the South; and a couple who have kept their autistic son at home instead of institutionalizing him. Lesy discovers numerous paradoxes among his subjects--vice becomes virtue and weakness breeds strength. ISBN 0-374-24947-4: $17.95.

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  • ISBN: 0374249474
  • ISBN: 9780374249472
  • Physical Description: print
    212 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991.

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      Riverdale Branch 		973.099 LESY, MICHAEL ( Send Text)
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