a heroic journey to liberation, manhood, and America
Missamou, Tchicaya
2010
A biography of Tchicaya Missamou, discussing his life as an eleven-year-old child soldier in the Congo, his family being brutalized and being hunted by his own militia, and his escape to Europe and then to America where he became a U.S. Marine.
Presents biographies of 13 Americans and discusses "ideas," such as freedom, cooperation, education, and division of labor, upon which America was founded.
