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CONTENTS
Introduction: Mat Is a Hero? xi
1 God's Heroes: Deborah,Judith, Samson and David 1
2 Earthshakers:Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar 27
3 Feminist Fire and Slaughter: Boudica 49
4 Exemplary Heroes: Henry VandJoan of Arc 56
5 Heroism in the Age oj the Axe: St. Thomas More, LAdy Jane Grey, Mary Queen oj Scots, Elizabeth I and Sir Uillter Ralegh 76
6 In the Roar oj the Cannon's Mouth: UilshingtDn, Nelson and Wellington 112
7 TOrtured Heroism in a Man's VVorld:
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Emily Dickinson 143
8 Two Kinds of Nobility: Lincoln and Lee 165
9 Cerebral Heroism: Ludwig Wittgenstein 180
10 The Heroism oj the Hostess: Lady Pamela Berry et al 199
11 A Generous Hero and a Heroic Monster:
. Churchill and de Gaulle 215
12 Heroism Behind the Greasepaint: Mae Ttest and Marilyn Monroe 234
13 The Heroic Trinity JiVho Tamed the Bear: Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II 253
Epilogue: Any Future for Heroism? 275
Notes on Further Reading 281
Index 285