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ISBN#: 0385508115
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From Nixon's "hatchet man" . . . to jailed felon . . . to admired Christian leader: the inspiring story of Charles Colson
Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed
by Jonathan Aitken
In 1974, after successful turns as a Marine, a lawyer, and special counsel to Richard Nixon, Charles W. Colson was implicated in Watergate and sent to federal prison. Yet what should have proved the final nail in the coffin of his professional life became instead the locus of his redemption. Seven months later, he left prison a transformed man. Armed with a newly-inspired Christian faith, Colson created the Prison Fellowship, a ministry designed to help inmates everywhere experience the same life-changing conversion he bore witness to. Now, in Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed, noted author Jonathan Aitken delivers the definitive biography of this inspiring figure.
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With complete and unprecedented access to Colson's personal papers and private archives, Aitken -- a former British politician and journalist who shares a similar path to that of Colson's -- offers invaluable and unprecedented insight into the entirety of Colson's life and personality. Drawing on his own earlier interviews with President Nixon, H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Rosemary Woods, and others, he gives readers an in-depth chronicle of Colson's political, historical, and spiritual journeys. Aitken's portrait also sheds new light on Colson's conversion to Christianity and his creation of the Prison Fellowship.
"Compelling"
"Evangelical leader Chuck Colson could hardly ask for a more friendly biographer . . . Yet [Aitken's] theological and political affinities with his subject do not prevent him from delivering a largely candid assessment of a man whose early career was both brilliant and resolutely godless, and whose postconversion ministry to prisoners has vaulted him to the top rank of evangelical heavyweights. Given unfettered access to Colson's associates, family and papers (even his personal, heavily annotated study Bible), Aitken excels at retelling Colson's early years of political machinations. His portrait of Colson's process of religious conversion is gripping as well. . . . a compelling portrait of a flawed but faithful man." -- Publishers Weekly
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