{"product_id":"9781934757161","title":"Six Who Dared","description":"SIX WHO DARED outlines the lives of six of the most daring, most outrageous, most endearing soldiers of fortune in history.\u003cbr\u003e William Walker: If comfortable careers in law, medicine and the church bore you, perhaps you should consider invading various countries with a handful of men until you can eventually become president of one?\u003cbr\u003e Ronald Douglas: Born into wealth, married into even more, Douglas died broke-and as a hero in eighteen countries.\u003cbr\u003e James Hardin-Hickey: When you come across an uninhabited island in the Atlantic, why not declare it a kingdom and yourself as it's king-at least until England decides she wants the place.\u003cbr\u003e Winston Churchill: What better way for a young man to see action than to become a war correspondent, serve in numerous campaigns, get captured, and stage one of the most daring escapes in history?\u003cbr\u003e Philo McGiffin: When you graduate near the bottom of your class at the U.S. Naval Academy and your own country won't even give you a commission, what else is there to do but command a squadron of Chinese battleships and become commandant of their naval academy?\u003cbr\u003e Frederick Burnham: Just your basic story of how a city boy from Pasadena, CA grows up to be the the finest scout in Africa, and have more hair-raising adventures than Indiana Jones.\u003cp\u003e\"A powerful and original writer.\"\u003cbr\u003e Theodore Roosevelt\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fireship Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057694654704,"sku":"9781934757161","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934757161_p0.jpg?v=1763642122","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934757161","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}