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>From PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"This carefully crafted and finely probed book will stand as a definitive look at what is perhaps the most popular hymn in American history."
>From LIBRARY JOURNAL
"Turner's account of Newton's life reads like a good suspense novel: he
carefully sets the stage for Newton's conversion from slave trader to
champion abolitionist while presenting his experience as a country
clergyman' Fully researched and supplemented by useful appendixes, including a
discography and a 'Who's Who' Heartily recommended for all collections."
>From BOOKLIST
"Writing musical history, Turner also writes social history. Examining how
the song changed over the years, he considers how the cultural climate of the
day contributed to these changes. Writing the song's biography, he also
writes the life of John Newton and carefully delineates how Newton's deeply
felt words crossed the Atlantic to eventually be set to its now familiar tune
by a South Carolina singing instructor. Musical history at its entertaining
best, for just about every music lover."
>From KIRKUS REVIEWS
"Turner pens an informative biography of the man who wrote 'Amazing Grace'
and a comprehensive chronicle of the hymn's journey to cultural iconhood' A
sensitive and thoughtful take of a much-loved song."
>From NEWSDAY
"Turner rescues (John) Newton from myth."