Amazing Grace

"Magnificent.... Metaxas's work will stand as a living landmark." -- From the foreword by the Reverend Dr. Floyd Flake, president of Wilberforce University Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833), chronicling Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of his heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade -- a battle Wilberforce won in 1807 -- as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a victory achieved just three days before his death in 1833. Eric Metaxas discovers in this unsung hero a man of whom it can truly be said: he changed the world. Before Wilberforce, few thought slavery was wrong. After Wilberforce, most societies in the world came to see it as a great moral wrong. This account of Wilberforce's life will help many become acquainted with an exceptional man who was a hero to Abraham Lincoln and an inspiration to the anti-slavery movement in America. Eric Metaxas is the author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God (But Were Afraid to Ask) and thirty children's books. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Mars Hill Review, and First Things. He lives in New York City. Johnny Heller has been named one of the Top Fifty Voices of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine. In 2005, he received the highest award the industry offers -- the Audie -- for his narration of The Happiest Toddler on the Block.