They Stand Tall

You don’t have to stand more than six feet tall to be head and shoulders above the crowd. After all, the true height of a man or woman who “stands tall” is not measured by the number of inches from heel to head but by how good and great he is. This book adventures along with fifteen men and women of stature and tries to find out what makes them stand tall. Of course you will notice abilities beyond the average. But you will also notice that these people lost themselves in causes greater than themselves. Their devotion reflects the spirit of Christ.

The author has felt privileged to “live with” these great men and women of the recent past by means of many significant biographies. Of particular inspiration have been the following books:

A Man Called Peter, by Catherine Marshall (McGraw Hill); George Washington Carver, an American Biography, by Rackham Holt (Doubleday, Doran); The Story of Clara Barton of the Red Cross, by Jeannette Covert Nolan (Julian Messner); Invincible Louisa, by Cornelia Meigs (Little, Brown and Company); Theodore Roosevelt, an Intimate Biography, by William Roscoe Thayer (Houghton Mifflin); Jane Addams of Hull House, by Winifred E. Wise (Harcourt Brace); Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science, by Rene J. Dubos (Little, Brown, and Company); Horace Greeley—Printer, Editor, Crusader, by Henry Luther Stoddard (G. P. Putnam’s Sons); William Penn, Quaker and Pioneer, by Bonamy Dobree (Houghton Mifflin); and A Labrador Doctor, by W. T. Grenfell (Houghton Mifflin).

—Kenneth Hall