Biographies

"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
by Hilah Paulmier (compiled and edited by), illustrated by Lee Ames
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Admiral of the Ocean Sea
by Samuel E. Morison
from Atlantic Monthly Press
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Adventures of Davy Crockett
by David Crockett, illustrated by John W. Thomason
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All Hands Aloft!
by Lou A. Schmitt
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Amelia Earhart
Lives to Remember
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank, translated by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt
Book Club Edition from Nelson Doubleday, Inc.
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
World's Greatest Literature
by Benjamin Franklin
from Spencer Press
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Bombs and Blessings
by Retha Hazel Eldridge
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Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763
by Frederick A. Pottle
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Captain Edward L. Beach: Around the World Under Water
by Beril Becker
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Cheer the Lonesome Traveller
by Leslie Alexander Lacy, illustrated by James Barkley
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Chord of Steel
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Cross Creek
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Escape from Corregidor
by Edward D. Whitcomb
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Frederic Chopin
by Victor Seroff
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George Washington's World (pictorial hardcover)
by Genevieve Foster
from Charles Scribner's Sons
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George Washington: Man and Monument
by Frank Freidel and Lonnelle Aikman
from Washington National Monument Assoc.
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George Whitefield: Wayfaring Witness
by Stuart C. Henry
from Abingdon Press
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Henry M. Stanley
Lives to Remember
by Robert Edmond Alter
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$18.00 (1 in stock)
James Fenimore Cooper
by Donald A. Ringe
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John James Audubon: Painting America's Wildlife
by Janet Stevenson, illustrated by Robert Boehmer
from Encyclopedia Britannica
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Kate Greenaway Book
by Bryan Holme, with illustrations by Kate Greenaway
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Lady of Arlington
by Harnett T. Kane
from Doubleday & Company
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Lewis and Clark Expedition - 3-volume Set
by Meriwether Lewis
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
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$32.00 (1 in stock)
Life & Times of Beethoven
by Gino Pugnetti
from Curtis Publishing Co.
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Life & Times of Chopin
by Adelaide Murgia
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Life & Times of Elizabeth I
by Massimo Rossaro
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Life & Times of Louis XIV
by Alfredo Panicucci
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Life & Times of Napoleon
by Mario Rivoire
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Life & Times of Peter the Great
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Life & Times of St. Francis
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Life & Times of Washington
by Mario Rivoire, translated by C.J. Richards
from Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
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Life with Father and Mother
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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Mathew Brady
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by Samuel Nisenson and Alfred Parker
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Mr. Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg
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Natural Way to Draw
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Never Dies the Dream
by Margaret Landon
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Nun's Story
by Kathryn Hulme
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People, Places, Things, Ideas - 4 Volume Set
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Queen Elizabeth I: Forging an Empire
by Elizabeth Linington, illustrated by Robert Boehmer
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Ranch under the Rimrock
by Dorothy Lawson McCall
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Runner of the Mountain Tops
by Mabel Louise Robinson, illustrated by Lynd Ward
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1940 Newbery Honor Book
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Sam Houston
by Noel Gerson
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Scottish Chiefs
by Jane Porter, edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith, illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
from Charles Scribner's Sons
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Shorter Life of D. L. Moody
Moody Colportage Library #83
by A. P. Fitt
from Moody Press
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Skipper of the Sentinel
by May Cole Kuhn
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Smiling Rebel
by Harnett T. Kane
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South Sea Shilling
by Eric Swenson
First Edition from Viking Press
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Strawberry Point
by Florence Roe Wiggins
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These Wonderful People
by Noel Ames
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Thomas Jefferson
by Gene Lisitzky
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Three Against the Wilderness
by Eric Collier
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Trailblazer of American Science
by Sarah R. Riedman
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Trails Plowed Under
by Charles M. Russell
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Two Years Before the Mast
by Richard Henry Dana, illustrated by Robert Frankenberg
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Two Years Before the Mast (abridged)
by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
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Undersea Adventure
by Philippe Diole, translated from the French by Alan Ross
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Valiant Companions
by Helen E. Waite
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Wallenda
by Ron Morris
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Walter Reed: Vanquishing Yellow Fever
by Edward F. Dolan, illustrated by Dan Siculan
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Willa
by Ruth Franchere
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Winged Horse
by Joseph Auslander & Frank Ernest Hill
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World of Bernini
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World of Bruegel
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World of Cezanne
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World of Delacroix
by Tom Prideaux
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