Susanna Wesley, the mother of nineteen children, gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn-writer, her sons John and Charles. William Wilberforce led the fight to end the slave trade, giving up his chance to be England's prime minister.
George Washington led his country to independence yet resisted the temptation to become America's king. In this new, one-volume edition that brings together two of his most popular works, #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas explores the question of what makes a great person great? Seven Men and Seven Women tells the captivating stories of fourteen heroic individuals who changed the course of history and shaped the world in astonishing ways. Writing in his trademark conversational and engaging style, Eric Metaxas reveals how the other extraordinary women in this book achieved their greatness, inspiring readers to lives shaped by the truth of the gospel.Two beloved Metaxas classics in a single, compact edition. And Rosa Parks deep sense of justice and unshakeable dignity and faith helped launch the twentieth-centurys greatest social movement. Corrie ten Boom, arrested for hiding Dutch Jews from the Nazis, survived the horrors of a concentration camp to astonish the world by forgiving her tormentors. Susanna Wesley had nineteen children and gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn-writer, her sons John and Charles. Teenaged Joan of Arc followed Gods call and liberated her country, dying a heroic martyrs death. In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of historys greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following Gods call upon their lives as women.Įach of the world-changing figures who stride across these pagesJoan of Arc, Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, Maria Skobtsova, Corrie ten Boom, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parksis an exemplary model of true womanhood.
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