Using digitally restored page images of four books, of which were first published in 1908, 1922, 1952 and 1886, based on the lives of
James H. Richey,
written by himself,
Kateri Tekakwitha,
from a biographical study by John J. Wynne,
Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
from a biography by noted historians Harold Briggs and Ernestine Bennett Briggs; and
Dolly Madison,
based on letters to and by her, edited with additional family material by her grandniece Lucia Beverly Cutts, are presented complete and uncut from the original versions. Also included in this edition is supplemental background information that has not been published previously in other books.