Reddit mentions of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography

Sir Richard Francis Burton is one my idols/heroes. This book, by Edward Rice, has a lot of his story. http://www.amazon.com/Captain-Sir-Richard-Francis-Burton/dp/030681028X

> I seriously doubt that.

That's because you haven't read all of the comments here. Had you checked you would have seen that I referred to the concept by name in a post just hours ago.

> Lol, if you want to deliberately be anti-intellectual and anti-scholarly...

I don't. I like history. I am currently reading Logbook for Grace, a biography of Richard Burton, and Mahan's famous book on sea power (though that one is slow slogging for me).

It's just that, as I said in the post you overlooked, I haven't seen anything to convince me that Presentism is problematic. I am willing to be convinced by good arguments in its favor. Do you have any?

I haven't cracked them yet, but there are a few multi-volume biographies that get high marks (and since you say "the bigger the better..." :))

• Edmund Morris's trilogy on Teddy Roosevelt
  
• Manchester's The Last Lion series on Churchill
  
• Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  
  I also just had a friend send me Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton which seems like an interesting read.
  
  None of these are explicitly reformed, so I apologize if that's what you're looking for. But these are all acclaimed reads about men with a remarkable impact on history, which is worth attention anyway in my opinion :)