Paul Bunyan was a hero of North America's lumberjacks, the workers who cut down trees.

VOA: special.2011.05.07

Not surprisingly, America's sixteenth president is a hero of another former Illinois lawmaker.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Ting-Chi Wang leads us to the permanent exhibition called With a Single Step. She says that the exhibition about Chinese immigrants in America was based on the idea of a heros travels.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

It sounds wildly improbable, yet Mr Wolfe somehow succeeds in making his unlikely hero inspiring and almost believable as he stands up to the denizens of America's criminal underclass.

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The expansionist impulse continued under Teddy Roosevelt, whose big stick (carry one, while talking softly, he advised) and amendments to the Monroe Doctrine (his corollary proclaimed the United States' right to intervene anywhere in Latin America to prevent the Europeans doing so) have helped to make him a hero in today's Washington.

ECONOMIST: America and empire