Introduction: What Is a Hero?
1. God's Heroes: Deborah, Judith, Samson and David
2. Earthshakers: Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar
3. Feminist Fire and Slaughter: Boudica
4. Exemplary Heroes: Henry V and Joan of Arc
5. Heroism in the Age of the Axe: St. Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey, Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Ralegh
6. In the Roar of the Cannon's Mouth: Washington, Nelson and Wellington
7. Tortured Heroism in a Man's World: Jane Welsh Carlyle and Emily Dickinson
8. Two Kinds of Nobility: Lincoln and Lee
9. Cerebral Heroism: Ludwig Wittgenstein
10. The Heroism of the Hostess: Lady Pamela Berry et al.
11. A Generous Hero and a Heroic Monster: Churchill and de Gaulle
12. Heroism Behind the Greasepaint: Mae West and Marilyn Monroe
13. The Heroic Trinity Who Tamed the Bear: Reagan, Thatcher and John Paul II
Epilogue: Any future for Heroism?
