The fifth installment of this best-selling series features 365 captivating entries about the most celebrated personalities in history.
Like its compulsively readable predecessors, The Intellectual Devotional Biographies is organized into seven categories, one for each day of the week. With their trademark wit and style, authors David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim offer an array of fascinating facts about major figures from Atilla the Hun to Desmond Tutu.
In this daily devotional, learn about:authors and artists, from Homer and Ovid to Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolfleaders, such as Queen Elizabeth I, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, and Napoleon Bonaparteinnovators, from Johannes Gutenberg to Isaac Newton to Werner Heisenbergphilosophers, including Socrates, Epicurus, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jean-Paul Sartrerebels and reformers, from Joan of Arc and Spartacus to Galileo and Che Guevarapreachers and prophets, including Lao-tzu, John the Baptist, Martin Luther, and Gandhivillains, such as Benedict Arnold, Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, and Jack the Ripper
This volume shares the personal histories, accomplishments,and troubles of 365 people who have left an indelible mark on the world.
