This book contains twenty-six boyhood stories of celebrated present-day Americans. The characters have been selected from many walks of life to choose representative men in various activities. All of these men have achieved success and prominence, many of them rising from humble beginnings. Some of the men in this book are Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington, Wilbur and Orville Wright, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Calvin Coolidge.… (more)