Crossway Books sent me an advanced copy of John Piper’s Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce. I’ve heard Piper reads a lot of biographies and makes it a regular habit to write about them and retell their stories and ministries.

Wilberforce is an outstanding story of radical grace …
And here’s a description of the book:

In Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce, [John] Piper tells the story of Wilberforce’s conversion from an unbelieving, young politician into an agent of national change. Wilberforce’s public works read like a litany of philanthropy—from Bible societies to animal rights agencies—yet he was single minded in his forty-year struggle to abolish the slave trade in Britain. Though Wilberforce never lost a parliamentary election from age twenty-one to seventy-four, the cause of abolition was defeated eleven times before its eventual passage in 1833. How could a politician endure in the face of such odds? What would motivate him to do so?

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