Biographies, anyone?

Carl Sagan - A Life in the Cosmos by William Poundstone

My Life by Bill Clinton

Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson

 

I didn't know the meaning of 'biography' was leftist propaganda.

 

Have you actually read any of these?
Biographies are written about people you may disagree with politically, you know.

 

"My Life by Bill Clinton" OH did Hilllllarry allow him to have one :laugh:

 

Some old good ones

William Tyndale
Martin Luther
John Bunyan
George Whitefield
John Wesley
Jonathan Edwards
David Brainerd

Some 19th century good ones

Charles Spurgeon
D.L. Moody
Hudson Taylor

Some 20th century good ones

Eric Liddell
Billy Sunday
H.A. Ironside
John Rice
Nate Saint/Jim Elliot

Some Ladies

Fanny Crosby
Francis Havergal
Harriet Tubman

Most of these have a short summary on this link.

http://www.swordofthelord.com/biographies.htm


BGTF

Late edit:
I just noticed, I forgot to add John Newton, his is great.

 

Ben Franklin by Walter Isaacson

His Excellency a biography of George Washington by Joseph Ellis

both are excellent - the Franklin Bio is more of a page turner. It is interesting to go back and read about some of the founding fathers as an adult

 

This is one of my favorite books! The bio of Joel Sonnenberg by Joel Sonnenberg and Gregg Lewis. I cried and cried while reading this. Couldn't put it down!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0310246938/?tag=baptis04-20

 

==Jefferson of course is always an interesting study. An excellent religious biography of Jefferson is Edwin Gaustad's "Sworn on the Altar of God". It is historically accurate and theologically fair. Gaustad does not try to push Jefferson to the right or to the left. Rather he allows Jefferson's religious story to play out naturally. Another biography, that I have not had a chance to read, is "American Sphinx" by Joseph Ellis.

I also liked Edmund Morgan's "The Puritan Dilemma" which is the life of John Winthrop. Winthrop was a Puritan and an important player at the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Morgan has written several fine books on the Puritans ("The Puritan Family", "Visible Saints").

I just got a copy of "Just As I Am" the Billy Graham AutoBiography. I look forward to reading that when I get a chance.

 

John Toland's Biography on Adolph Hitler

 

John Adams by Catherine Drinker Bowen

 

Anything by Corrie Ten Boom

Adrian Rogers biography --- www.lwf.org


Stephen Olford's biography --- www.olford.com

 

Man Sent from God (bio of John R. Rice, the "20th Century's Mightiest Pen"), by Robert Sumner

Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, by Taylor

The Life of Adoniram Judson, by his son--very rare, extremely good

Builder of Bridges (Bob Jones Sr. bio), by R. K. Johnson--life of a tremendous evangelist and man of God

 

"I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" is still one that haunts me. I love almost all non fiction. Nothing is more compelling than a true story! I even wrote a book myself about our time homesteading in CO, complete with photos, to pass on to our kids one day.

love,

Sopranette

 

90 Minutes In Heaven by Don Piper was a good read.

 

This 2 volume set was some of the best reading I have ever done. Contrary to his morality, Hitler was a genius at manipulation.

 

I would recommend reading WILLIAM TYNDALE A BIOGRAPHY by David Daniell that was published by Yale University Press in 1994.

 

The autobiography of George Mueller is a personal favorite. Also, I enjoyed the autiobiography of Jung Chang, a woman who grew up during the communist revolution in China.