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I saw early on what Metaxas was trying to do here but stuck with it. Then I got to page 124, where he asks whether or not Bonhoeffer had been "born again", and I couldn't take it anymore. This book is a poorly-concealed attempt to cast Bonhoeffer in the role of a 21st-century American Fundamentalist preacher without actually stating it in a complete sentence. That may be fine and dandy to people who walk that way. But for an open-minded and critical history nerd who just wants to read a decent bio of Bonhoeffer that tells his story and explains his theology and politics in layman's terms - or, really, for anyone who wants to read a biography untainted by the author's personal beliefs and prejudices - this book is not only a major failure but also a little bit insidious. Call me over-sensitive, but I do adore my Widerstand boys and would love to see a book hit the the New York Times Bestseller list that does any one of them justice. Unfortunately, all Metaxas's book does is stroke right-wing evangelical egos. I don't need to finish it to know that it isn't going to improve.

Victoria J. Barnett has written an excellent critical review of Bonhoeffer which you can (and should) read . (As if noticing the praise from Glenn Beck and Joseph Loconte doesn't deter you first. Well, okay, Publisher's Weekly raves about it too...)