When I was in grade school, our school library had a series of books that told the stories of famous people—everyone from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Edison and beyond. Each provided information about the subjects’ formative years, their adult lives, and their impact on other people and society. Although published in the 1950s, the series was not limited to white American men, but also featured women, Native Americans, and African-Americans. For the most part these were morality tales that promised if you worked hard and helped others, you would be successful in life. The perspective might have been rather narrow, but such reading did introduce me to the joy of learning about leaders through reading. Reading biography and autobiography provides significant insight about those who have gone before us--the famous, the infamous, and the obscure. Such reading gives a ground-level perspective on great national and international movements and often he...
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