Title: WOULD YOU DO WHAT THEY DID
Author: William Dean Hamilton
Publisher: Crosslink Publishing
September 2013
ISBN: 978-1-936746-64-4
Genre: Nonfiction / biographies
Come, tame a wolf, flee from the wrath of the king, feel the
horror of impending doom on a ship, and the uncertainty of one's own salvation
with these great heroes of the faith.
Would You Do what they Did? Great Christian Leaders from
our Past is a creative nonfiction collection of biographies of Martin
Luther, Francis of Assisi, John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church
WOULD YOU DO WHAT THEY DID? is a creative nonfiction
collection of “biographies” that maybe somewhat true, but the author rewrote
the stories to fit his taste and style instead of how it really happened. To be
fair, he does state what is changed in an effort to “make the characters come
alive” as he states in the introduction. This is the story of Catholicism and
Reformation, but also the story of people who lived and died for the faith.
I was looking for a good collection of biographies of
Christian leaders for my tween daughter to study as part of her homeschool and I
was excited to receive this book for review from Book Crash for that purpose. It has plenty of margin
space, and it is simply written with easily understood words.
The main character written about was Francis of Assisi , and to a much
lesser extent, the other three. I was curious about the unequal featuring of
the Christian heroes. There were also
many spelling, punctuation, and basic sentence structure issues that distracted
the reader, and a good editing could have fixed this.
I am not Catholic but Protestant, and I was glad to see the
Methodist and Lutheran church beginnings have a nod in this book. If you are interested in actual biographies –
this is not the book. But it is an easy read, and since the correct events are
listed (as changes) then you will have the facts. Rather pricey at $20.95. 310 pages. 3 stars.
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