Biographies
We are looking for biographies and autobiographies that depict lives worth emulating in a compelling manner, that are accurate and accessible, that and that raise important ethical questions. Please help us build our list by sending your recommendations and comments on those that have been made to lorrainepangle@austin.utexas.edu. Here are a few we have received so far:
Abelard, Peter The Story of Abelard's Adversities
Al-Ghazzali, The Deliverance from Error
Bainton, Roland, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
Brookhiser, Richard, Alexander Hamilton, American
Brookhiser, Richard, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington
Charnwood, Lord, Abraham Lincoln
Chesterton, G. K., St. Francis of Assisi
Douglass, Frederick, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass or Narrative
Franklin, Benjamin, Autobiography
Flexner, James Thomas, Washington: The Indispensable Man
Morgan, Edmund, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
Morgan, Edmund, Benjamin Franklin
Plutarch, Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Plutarch, Lives of: Pericles, Cicero, Sertorius
Washington, Booker T., Up from Slavery
Wood, Gordon, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different