Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery, (Hardcover)

from vanjr

A good, easy to read biography of a guy most of us do not even know about. I have not read other biographies of Wilberforce, so they may be as good as this or better. This is a 5 star read because of Wiberforce. There were some author in sites towards the end that were worthwhile as well.

from LeslieHurd

Amazing Grace was wonderful! It provided a good picture of the society in which William Wilberforce lived and how unusual it was for the British at the time to actually live as Christians rather than pay the lip service most gave to the Church of England. Wilberforce had an early exposure to the ...

from bookworm12

Wilberforce was quite a man. After becoming a Christian he dedicated the rest of his life to helping the less fortunate people in the world. He is remembered for his fight to end the British slave trade in England in the late 1700s and early 1800s. The trade was awful on so many levels, but one o...

from the4otts

Metaxas delivers again! After reading John Newton by Jonathan Aitken years ago (one of my top 5 favorite books), I just had to read this book. Wilberforce was a friend of John Newton (wrote the hymn Amazing Grace)and William Cowper (wrote the musical score to Amazing Grace) You will be delighted ...

from HGButchWalker

I came to this book primarily because I was so affected by Mr. Metaxas' book on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that I wanted to read more of his work. My exposure to Wilberforce had been primarily through the movie of the same title and wasn't sure if I was getting a manuscript that would simply...