From School Library Journal Grade 4-8–Considering the interesting, unusual lives these three larger-than-life heroes led, these biographies are surprisingly bland and uninspiring. Haugen recites events while failing to create a sense of who Hamilton, Allen, and Jones really were, and also fails to adequately summarize their contributions and significance. Her scholarship is suspect, given the number of errors and omissions as well as the large number of notes that are incorrectly cited and/or quoted. The maps are incomplete, and too many illustrations are old-fashioned and irrelevant. For Hamilton, use John Rosenburg's thorough, fascinating
