The Secret Patriots: Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America When It Mattered Most (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781835564561)

The America You Know Is Only Half the Story

History lied to you. The real America wasn't built by the marble statues and famous faces in your textbooks; it was forged by a one-legged spy who terrorized Hitler, an enslaved man who helped win the Revolution while fighting for his own freedom, and a gay organizer who planned the March on Washington but couldn't march in the front row.

Meet the Secret Patriots Who Changed Everything:

• Virginia Hall - Rejected as "too disabled," she became Hitler's most wanted enemy agent.
• Sybil Ludington - The 16-year-old who rode twice as far as Paul Revere (so why don't you know her name?).
• James Armistead Lafayette - A slave who spied for Washington while pretending to spy for the British.
• Bayard Rustin - The brilliant mind who organized MLK's dream but had to hide in the shadows.
• Elizabeth Keckley - From enslaved seamstress to Lincoln's confidante during America's darkest hour.

This is history with the sanitized version stripped away.

No perfect heroes. No simple answers. Just flawed, extraordinary people doing the impossible when everything was falling apart.

Discover the hidden truth about American courage in stories that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about who built this country, and why their names were buried.

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action in spite of it. And in America's darkest hours, ordinary people have always found extraordinary ways to light the path forward."

The real founding fathers and mothers. The true price of freedom. The heroes history forgot, until now.