He start off in Methuselah's Children
which is about a selective breeding experiment that starts in about 1900 to try to make long-lived humans by giving them incentives to marry each other. He's a sort of freak early product of that and lives to be at least 4000. SO he's born in maybe 1912, but life long enough to leave earth, found colonies, marry several times and have many adventures. He's a likable if rather right-wing (this is hienlien after all) character. he does get involved in time travel and alternate universes in later books, but mostly as a perifferal character. WHat has you read of hienlien?
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 22 Jul 2011, 22:26, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Stranger in a strange land
and someone's Farm, I think that was him, can't find the book right now
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 22:32, Reply)

Farnham's freehold.
Stranger is good, it made me cry at the end. Damn it this threat is making me want to re-read too much stuff. I don't know how much I'd recommend his stuff, I read and loved it as a teenager, so my judgement is skewed.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 22 Jul 2011, 22:35, Reply)

I liked stranger
but I think it was while I'd been reading lots of Octavia Butler/JOanna Russ type stuff and I got annoyed that all the female characters were 1 dimensional
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 22:37, Reply)

Yes, this is one of the ways in which he is indefencible
So I won't try. It has a place in my heart, but I hesitate to recomend it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 22 Jul 2011, 22:39, Reply)