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A book that topped the New York Times bestseller list. From America's favorite political science teacher, Adam Grant's "captivating and engaging" portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage helped shape our country's character. In The Young and the Powerful, Sharon McMahon proves that America's most prominent people are often ordinary people whose names aren't mentioned in textbooks. Not the bosses, but the telephone operators. Not the aristocrats, but the schoolteachers. Through meticulous research, she discovers obscure historical figures, shedding light for the first time on their rich and captivating stories. You'll meet a woman riding a white horse down Pennsylvania Avenue, a young boy held in a Japanese internment camp, a formerly enslaved woman on a mission to reunite with her daughter, a poet on a train, and a schoolteacher learning to work with her enemies. More than one place is bombed, and many people suddenly become rich. Some of them are rich in money, and some of them are rich in what is more important. This is a book about what made America - and Americans - truly great. Unexpected heroes, McMahon's characters will become familiar friends, showing us the way in our quest to make the world more just, peaceful, good and free.