So far ten of them have been published, and they are about people as different in time and place as Elizabeth I and Mahatma Gandhi, with Gilbert Stuart, the portrait painter, in between.
None is more than two hundred pages in length.
I read six of them this summer, and they did two things for me over and above the obvious pleasure and information that they gave me. First, they reminded me more vividly than I had been reminded in a long time that the most inspiring thing on earth is an inspired human life. There is nothing that will put wind in your sails more quickly than to spend a few hours with one of the great souls of the earth. And another thing they did for me was to give me an idea for a series of sermons. We biblical Christians live in a gallery of great lives.