Whose biographies have you read?

[Russ]

Just curious to ask people whose biographies they have read, since I think that the people you choose to read about is a kind of portrait of your likes and dislikes and values.

Here's a list of 5 biographies I've read, which I admit is kind of eclectic:
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Lewis and Clark
- Darryl Dawkins
- Brian Wilson (Beach Boys)
- Mark Bissonette (Seal Team member who shot Bin Laden)

One other biography I'd like to read, but it hasn't been written yet:
- Julius Erving

[Kathianne]

Just curious to ask people whose biographies they have read, since I think that the people you choose to read about is a kind of portrait of your likes and dislikes and values.

Here's a list of 5 biographies I've read, which I admit is kind of eclectic:
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Lewis and Clark
- Darryl Dawkins
- Brian Wilson (Beach Boys)
- Mark Bissonette (Seal Team member you shot Bin Laden)

One other biography I'd like to read, but it hasn't been written yet:
- Julius Erving

Teddy Roosevelt-The Bully Pulpit
Steve Jobs
Abraham Lincoln-3 or 4
John Adams
Richard Nixon
More, but that seems enough. LOL!

[revelarts]

Walt Disney
St. Patrick
Fredrick Douglas
Winston Spencer Churchill
Booker T. Washington
Samuel Morris (Former slave turned devote inspiring Christian)
Roger Williams (founder of Rhode Island, promoter of freedom of religion)
John Perkins ("Confessions of an Economic Hitman" Corporate/CIA economic operative)
Sibel Edmonds ("Classified Woman" FBI whistle blower)

Never thought about before but it seems I've watched more Biographies than i've read.

[hjmick]

Benjamin Franklin
Virginia Hall
Erwin Rommel
John Nash
Alan Turing
Percy Fawcett
Louis Zamperini
Alexander Hamilton
John Adams
Shirley Jackson
Linda Ronstadt
William Shakespeare
Harry Truman

others...

Though not a biography in the strictest sense, I just finished Indianapolis The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man. One of the best damn books I've read in a while. Don't let Robert Shaw's monologue in JAWS be all you know about the U.S.S. Indianapolis.

[Gunny]

Anybody got a Snickers? This is gonna take awhile :laugh:

I'll have to come back to this. Some:

Attila the Hun
Julius Caesar
Hannibal
Saladin
George S Patton
Robert E Lee
Sir Winston Churchill
Stillwell
Douglas MacArthur
Myamoto Musashi
Gichin Funakoshi
Shoshin Nagamine
Washington
Lincoln
Jefferson
Sam Houston
Stephen Austin
Davy Crockett
Daniel Boone
Kit Carson
Jim Bridger
Wyatt Earp
Cromwell

More

Back before cable TV and internet, we always had a library on base where you could get actual books and read them :)

[Abbey Marie]

Interesting question, Russ.

I love Bios and Autobios. I’ve forgotten a lot, but here are some that I can remember:
David Crosby
John and Abigail Adams’ letters
Janis Joplin
George Washington
James Taylor
Ingrid Bergman
Edna St Vincent Millay
Tommy James

[icansayit]

Let's say I begin with Abraham Lincoln. There have been many over the years.
Ronald Reagan
Tom Clancy
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
FDR
Eisenhower
General Patton (My Hero)
John F. Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
Jonas Salk
Admiral McCain (John's Father) (because I drove him to a Meeting while working at COMFAIR NORFOLK, then COMNAVAIRLANT 1964 timeframe.
And many more Naval hero's.

[Russ]

Here's a few more biographies I'd read but forgot to put on my list:

Willie Mays

Matthew Henson (first to the North Pole, with Peary)

Sir Richard Francis Burton (The 19th-century explorer, translator of the Arabian Nights, first non-Arab to journey to Mecca. Not the 20th century actor that married Liz Taylor several times)

[Russ]

Walt Disney
St. Patrick
Fredrick Douglas
Winston Spencer Churchill
Booker T. Washington
Samuel Morris (Former slave turned devote inspiring Christian)
Roger Williams (founder of Rhode Island, promoter of freedom of religion)
John Perkins ("Confessions of an Economic Hitman" Corporate/CIA economic operative)
Sibel Edmonds ("Classified Woman" FBI whistle blower)

Never thought about before but it seems I've watched more Biographies than i've read.

Rev, I'm interested in hearing more about Samuel Morris. Was his biography a good read? I might check it out.

[revelarts]

Rev, I'm interested in hearing more about Samuel Morris. Was his biography a good read? I might check it out.
Yes, short and very sweet.
Died a young man, simply & passionate foe God.

[jimnyc]

I feel lame...

Rocky Bleir!

[hjmick]

I feel lame...

Rocky Bleir!


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:lmao:

[jimnyc]

Hey Kathianne

Your other thread, fighting back, was that in reference to my pick above? Just curious if that was you knowing or a massive coincidence!

[Kathianne]

Hey @Kathianne (http://www.debatepolicy.com/member.php?u=8)

Your other thread, fighting back, was that in reference to my pick above? Just curious if that was you knowing or a massive coincidence!

I really didn't recognize Rocky, so no. It has more to do with my tiring of all the 'but he fights' I've heard for years now. In these cases though, the fighting is with thought, not just 'feelings.'

[jimnyc]

I really didn't recognize Rocky, so no. It has more to do with my tiring of all the 'but he fights' I've heard for years now. In these cases though, the fighting is with thought, not just 'feelings.'

Rocky Bleir was a Steelers icon. Then went to Vietnam and had half of his foot blown off. Career over. Nope! "Fighting Back" the book he wrote is his entire story of making it back playing and exceling with the Steelers. How you can play running back with half a foot missing, or a lot of it, is beyond me.

[Kathianne]

Rocky Bleir was a Steelers icon. Then went to Vietnam and had half of his foot blown off. Career over. Nope! "Fighting Back" the book he wrote is his entire story of making it back playing and exceling with the Steelers. How you can play running back with half a foot missing, or a lot of it, is beyond me.

That is just an awesome story. Reminds me of how Gunny was lamenting the changes in FB.