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"Did they tell you stories about the saints of old,
stories about their faith?
Stories like that make a boy grow bold,
stories like that make a man walk straight..."
—Rich Mullins, Boy Like Me, Man Like You

Stories about people have a way of affecting us in ways other stories can't. The Bible is primarily stories about people, and it is through these multiple biographies that we understand human nature, the history of redemption, and even to a great extent God Himself. The purpose behind any other biography is largely the same—to help us understand what it means to be human from the examples (sometimes even the bad examples) of those who have preceded us.

The biographies we have chosen for this section represent those of great leaders in history, social and military heroes, and Christian saints past and present who struggled to conform their lives to Christ's perfect example. We have avoided for the most part biographies of history's villains and chronic immoralists, not because they aren't interesting but because they don't represent lives worthy of imitation. We've also decided not to focus on athletes, actors, and celebrities, unless they've made important contributions outside their fields. That's not to say everyone found here was above reproach or even a Christian, but they all demonstrated real human virtues for which they are remembered.

Biographies are also useful for better understanding of a given historical period. While history books can provide good overviews of a period or events, the intimate detail of a good biography can better illustrate a time period and what it was like to be alive then. This also serves to demonstrate the universality of human nature, that people will behave basically the same during any given period and in any given place. Sometimes we get the impression that people of the past, especially people like missionaries and ministers, were somehow more pious than we are—the personal view offered by a good biography dispels this myth and offers encouragement that not even the best men and women are any closer to perfection than we are.

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	Abe Lincoln An Anthology by Hilah Paulmier (compiled and edited by), illustrated by Lee Ames First Edition from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for 3rd-Adult in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $11.00 (1 in stock)
	Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance by Frances Cavanah from Rand McNally Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Abe Lincoln Grows Up by Carl Sandburg, illustrated by James Daugherty from Harcourt, Brace & Company for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $9.00 (1 in stock)
	Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates, illustrated by Nora S. Unwin from E.P. Dutton & Co. Realistic Fiction for 4th-8th grade 1951 Newbery Medal winner in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Auguste and Jacques Piccard: Exploring the Sky and Sea by Alida Sims Malkus, illustrated by Robert Boehmer from Kingston House for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Striving to Be Champion by Helen Markley Miller, illustrated by Richard Mlodock from Encyclopedia Britannica for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Book of Famous Explorers Young Folks Library by Edwin Erle Sparks, editor from Auxiliary Educational League for 3rd-9th grade in Vintage Anthology Collections (Location: VIN-ANTH) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Cabin Boy to Advent Crusader by Virgil Robinson, illustrated by Harry Baerg from Southern Publishing Association for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Christopher Columbus and His Brothers by Amy Hogeboom from Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Citizen Tom Paine by Howard Fast from Duell, Sloan and Pearce for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Colonial Governor Thomas Dongan of New York by J.G.E. Hopkins, illustrated by William Wilson from P.J. Kenedy & Sons for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Ernest Hemingway: Remaking Modern Fiction by Paul Rink, illustrated by Robert Boehmer from Encyclopedia Britannica for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Five Roads to the White House by Ann E. Weiss from Julian Messner for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Forward March to Freedom The Story of A. Philip Randolph by Barbara Kay Greenleaf from Grosset & Dunlap for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Francis and Clare, Saints of Assisi by Helen Walker Homan Stated First Printing from Vision Books for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $15.00 (2 in stock)
	Frank Lloyd Wright: Living Architecture by Gorham Munson, illustrated by Dan Siculan from Encyclopedia Britannica for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	From the Eagle's Wing A Biography of John Muir by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, illustrated by Lynd Ward from William Morrow & Company for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $14.00 (1 in stock)
	Geronimo: The Last Apache War Chief by Edgar Wyatt, illustrated by Allan Houser from McGraw-Hill for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Herbert Hoover Story by Catherine Owens Peare from Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	Heroes of the Army in America by Charles Morris from J.B. Lippincott Co. for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $24.00 (1 in stock)
	Horseman of the King The Story of John Wesley by Cyril J. Davey 1970 printing from Christian Literature Crusade for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Kit Carson: Folk Hero and Man by Noel B. Gerson from Doubleday & Company for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $7.50 (1 in stock)
	Lee de Forest: Advancing the Electronic Age by Donald Wollheim, illustrated by Robert Boehmer from Encyclopedia Britannica for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Lincoln the Unknown The Most Astounding Story in American History by Dale Carnegie from Forest Hills Publishing Co. for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Lincoln's Little Correspondent by Hertha Pauli, illustrated by Fritz Kredel from Doubleday & Company for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $7.20 (1 in stock)
	Mathew Brady: Photographing History by Manual Komroff, with photographs by Mathew Brady from Encyclopedia Britannica for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Men of Science and Invention by Michael Blow from American Heritage Publishing Co. for 5th-8th grade in American Heritage Junior Library (Location: VIN-HIS) $5.00 (1 in stock)
	More Minute Biographies Intimate Glimpses into the Lives of 150 Famous Men and Women by Samuel Nisenson and Alfred Parker from Grosset & Dunlap for 3rd-12th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Never Say Die The Story of Gladys Aylward by Cyril Davey 1972 Printing from Lutterworth Press for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	North Pole A Doubleday Signal Book by Tony Simon, Illustrated by Albert Orbaan from Doubleday & Company for 4th-8th grade in 20th Century Exploration (Location: HISW-20EXP) $6.00 (2 in stock)
	P. T. Barnum: Entertaining the World by Fred J. Cook, illustrated by Dan Siculan from Encyclopedia Britannica for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Pioneering on the Plains Frontiers of America by Edith McCall, illustrated by Carol Rogers from Children's Press for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $12.00 (2 in stock)
	Poor Richard in France by F. N. Monjo, illustrated by Brinton Turkle from Henry Holt and Company for 2nd-5th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $7.50 (1 in stock)
	Profiles in Courage Young Readers Memorial Edition by John F. Kennedy from HarperCollins Biography Anthology for 4th-8th grade 1957 Biography Pulitzer Prize in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Profiles in Courage (abridged) Young Readers Edition by John F. Kennedy, illustrated by Emil Weiss from HarperCollins Biography Anthology for 4th-8th grade 1957 Biography Pulitzer Prize in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $6.00 (2 in stock)
	Real Book About Explorers by Irvin Block, illustrated by Jules Gotlieb from Garden City Books for 3rd-6th grade in Real Books series (Location: VIN-RBA) $6.00 (1 in stock)
	Real Book about George Washington by Harold Coy, illustrated by Elinore Blaisdell from Garden City Books for 5th-8th grade in Real Books series (Location: VIN-RBA) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Robert Frost: Making Poems for America by Gorham Munson, illustrated by Dan Siculan from Encyclopedia Britannica for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Story of Good Queen Bess Grosset & Dunlap Signature #18 by Alida Sims Malkus, illustrated by Douglas Gorsline from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Thaddeus Lowe: America's One-Man Air Corps by Mary Hoehling from Kingston House for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Theodore Roosevelt: Rallying a Free People by Fred J. Cook, illustrated by Robert Boehmer from Kingston House for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $12.00 (1 in stock)
	Thomas Jefferson Weekly Reader Heroes of the Revolution by Susan & John Lee from Children's Press for 2nd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $3.20 (1 in stock)
	To the Top of the World Sir Edmund Hillary and the Conquest of Everest by Mark Sufrin from Platt and Munk Publishers for 4th-8th grade in 20th Century Exploration (Location: HISW-20EXP) $8.00 (1 in stock)
	Triumphant Adventure The Story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Frances Cavanah, illustrated by Jo Polseno 3rd Printing, 1967 from Rand McNally for 4th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $10.00 (1 in stock)
	True Stories of Great Men & Women For Young Americans from W. E. Scull for 3rd-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS) $15.00 (1 in stock)
	Two Years Before the Mast (abridged) by Richard Henry Dana Jr. from Nelson Doubleday, Inc. for 5th-9th grade in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC) $4.00 (1 in stock)
	Will and Charlie Mayo: Doctor's Boys Childhood of Famous Americans by Marie Hammontree, Illustrated by Dorothy Bayley Morse from Bobbs-Merril Co Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $4.00 (1 in stock)

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