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Andrew Jackson - Old Hickory In Christian America

by Jonathan M. Atkins

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 Few today think of Andrew Jackson, the American military hero and president, as a religious man. Nevertheless, Jackson considered himself a Christian throughout his life. Raised a "rigid presbeterian," Jackson's mother wanted her son to grow up to become a clergyman, and despite suffering tragedies and losing his family in the American Revolution, Jackson never rejected the fundamental Christian teachings of his youth. Although he gained notoriety as a rakish young man, religion's influence on him ebbed and flowed as he established himself as part of the South's planter elite. With his devout wife, Rachel, he attended church and knew his Bible and religious subjects well, and while his determination to preserve his reputation involved him in numerous personal conflicts--including a duel that led to his killing a rival--he blended the principles of the antebellum South's honor-based culture with his belief in a traditional, orthodox version of Christianity. Likewise, he easily reconciled his religion with his ownership of slaves and his advocacy of Native American removal, and while he equated his enemies with the forces of evil, he always attributed his military and political accomplishments to the blessings of Providence. As he aged, Jackson became more devout, but he never experienced a dramatic conversion--contradicting the expectations of the leading revivalists of his era's Second Great Awakening--and he consistently promoted religious liberty and separation of church and state as core republican principles. Ultimately, Jackson's faith reflected a version of Christianity widespread in his era, and his frequent appeals for divine guidance and for God's blessing on his nation further encouraged the development of an American civil religion.
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William Ewart Gladstone - The Heart And Soul Of A Statesman

by Michael Wheeler

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 The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers. In order to signal the difference between Wheeler's approach and those of earlier biographers, the subject of this book is known as William, his baptismal name. His autobiographical fragments of 1892 included a disclaimer: 'I do not indeed intend in these notes to give a history of the inner life, which I think has with me been extraordinarily dubious, vacillating, and (above all) complex'. William Gladstone: The Heart and Soul of a Statesman is about the spiritual dimension of his complex inner life. In tracing the movements of his heart and soul, the book works from the inner to the outer aspects of a rich and varied life, from William's daily disciplines of prayer and reflection to his earnest attempts to follow the precepts of Christianity through action in the public realm and in private philanthropy, and in the writing of numerous reviews, articles, and books. He remained an independent intellectual, eschewing party labels within the Church of England and working out his own stance in relation to specific Liberal party policies in politics. He was as much a man of letters as he was a politician. Later in his political career, 'the people's William' appealed to public opinion through a series of national moral campaigns. His fiercest battles, however, were spiritual, as he castigated himself for falling short of the ideals set out in Jesus' sermon on the mount, particularly with regard to sexual desire as he sought to rescue women from a life of prostitution and became infatuated with a former courtesan. His longest crusade was against the enemy within.
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William Ewart Gladstone - The Heart And Soul Of A Statesman

by Michael Wheeler

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 The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers. In order to signal the difference between Wheeler's approach and those of earlier biographers, the subject of this book is known as William, his baptismal name. His autobiographical fragments of 1892 included a disclaimer: 'I do not indeed intend in these notes to give a history of the inner life, which I think has with me been extraordinarily dubious, vacillating, and (above all) complex'. William Gladstone: The Heart and Soul of a Statesman is about the spiritual dimension of his complex inner life. In tracing the movements of his heart and soul, the book works from the inner to the outer aspects of a rich and varied life, from William's daily disciplines of prayer and reflection to his earnest attempts to follow the precepts of Christianity through action in the public realm and in private philanthropy, and in the writing of numerous reviews, articles, and books. He remained an independent intellectual, eschewing party labels within the Church of England and working out his own stance in relation to specific Liberal party policies in politics. He was as much a man of letters as he was a politician. Later in his political career, 'the people's William' appealed to public opinion through a series of national moral campaigns. His fiercest battles, however, were spiritual, as he castigated himself for falling short of the ideals set out in Jesus' sermon on the mount, particularly with regard to sexual desire as he sought to rescue women from a life of prostitution and became infatuated with a former courtesan. His longest crusade was against the enemy within.
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Andrew Jackson - Old Hickory In Christian America

by Jonathan M. (Professor Of History, Berry College) Atkins

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 A short biography of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), seventh President of the United States (1829-37) and commander of the US forces during the victorious Battle of New Orleans against the British, who was also a slave owner and instigator of the forced removal of native American tribes from their traditional territories.
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William Ewart Gladstone - The Heart And Soul Of A Statesman

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 Today William Gladstone is known as a great Victorian statesman whose father was a slave owner and who tried to rescue prostitutes. In this biography, Michael Wheeler focuses on his complex and often troubled spiritual life, and on his earnest attempts to follow the precepts of Christianity in both the public realm and in private philanthropy.
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George Eliot - Whole Soul

by Ilana M. Blumberg

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 This account of George Eliot's spiritual life reveals a writer who devoted the full span of her career to imagining a wide religious sensibility that could inform personal and social life. As we range among Eliot's many literary works, we encounter someone whose extraordinary art and intellect offers us company in the search for modern meaning.
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George Eliot - Whole Soul

by Ilana M. Blumberg

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 This account of George Eliot's spiritual life reveals a writer who devoted the full span of her career to imagining a wide religious sensibility that could inform personal and social life. As we range among Eliot's many literary works, we encounter someone whose extraordinary art and intellect offers us company in the search for modern meaning.
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Lenin Lives?

by Christopher (Emeritus Professor Of History, University Of Warwick) Read

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 A lively, accessible and wide-ranging account of one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. Through a brief but stimulating and penetrating account of his life and chief ideas the study examines how 'Leninism' emerged and became a global force.
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George Eliot - Whole Soul

by Ilana M. (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Bar Ilan University) Blumberg

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 This account of George Eliot's spiritual life reveals a writer who devoted the full span of her career to imagining a wide religious sensibility that could inform personal and social life. As we range among Eliot's many literary works, we encounter someone whose extraordinary art and intellect offers us company in the search for modern meaning.
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Ebenezer Howard - Inventor Of The Garden City

by Frances Knight

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 Ebenezer Howard founded the Garden City movement, and he continues to be cited by planners and theorists. Ebenezer Howard: Inventor of the Garden City is a properly contextualized analysis of Howard's religious views. It investigates neglected aspects of his life, and provides a significant new interpretation of the Garden City movement.
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Ebenezer Howard - Inventor Of The Garden City

by Frances Knight

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 Ebenezer Howard founded the Garden City movement, and he continues to be cited by planners and theorists. Ebenezer Howard: Inventor of the Garden City is a properly contextualized analysis of Howard's religious views. It investigates neglected aspects of his life, and provides a significant new interpretation of the Garden City movement.
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Walter Lippmann - American Skeptic, American Pastor

by Mark Thomas Edwards

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 Walter Lippmann was arguably the most respected political journalist of last century, one of liberalism's strongest proponents and harshest critics. This biography considers the role of religion in his life, highlighting the constructive power of doubt, and how he manufactured himself as the prophet of limitation for an excessive American Century.
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Walter Lippmann - American Skeptic, American Pastor

by Mark Thomas Edwards

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 Walter Lippmann was arguably the most respected political journalist of last century, one of liberalism's strongest proponents and harshest critics. This biography considers the role of religion in his life, highlighting the constructive power of doubt, and how he manufactured himself as the prophet of limitation for an excessive American Century.
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Ebenezer Howard - Inventor Of The Garden City

by Frances (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University Of Nottingham) Knight

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 Ebenezer Howard founded the Garden City movement, and he continues to be cited by planners and theorists. Ebenezer Howard: Inventor of the Garden City is a properly contextualized analysis of Howard's religious views. It investigates neglected aspects of his life, and provides a significant new interpretation of the Garden City movement.
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Mark Twain - Preacher, Prophet, And Social Philosopher

by Gary Scott Smith

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 Smith offers an engaging biography of one of the world's most inspiring, humorous, and provocative authors. He analyzes Mark Twain's constantly changing views of Christianity, humanity, the afterlife, and other theological topics, thereby providing a window into the spiritual crisis of the Gilded Age.
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Mark Twain - Preacher, Prophet, And Social Philosopher

by Gary Scott Smith

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 Smith offers an engaging biography of one of the world's most inspiring, humorous, and provocative authors. He analyzes Mark Twain's constantly changing views of Christianity, humanity, the afterlife, and other theological topics, thereby providing a window into the spiritual crisis of the Gilded Age.
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Benjamin Franklin - Cultural Protestant

by D. G. Hart

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 This compelling biography interprets Franklin as the embodiment of Protestant attitudes toward print culture, urban life, science, intellectual life, and politics. It shows that Franklin should be included in the company of figures like Lincoln for whom Protestant convictions informed their outlook on and contribution to the world.
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Benjamin Franklin - Cultural Protestant

by D. G. Hart

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 This compelling biography interprets Franklin as the embodiment of Protestant attitudes toward print culture, urban life, science, intellectual life, and politics. It shows that Franklin should be included in the company of figures like Lincoln for whom Protestant convictions informed their outlook on and contribution to the world.
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Mark Twain - Preacher, Prophet, And Social Philosopher

by Gary Scott (Grove City College) Smith

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 Smith offers an engaging biography of one of the world's most inspiring, humorous, and provocative authors. He analyzes Mark Twain's constantly changing views of Christianity, humanity, the afterlife, and other theological topics, thereby providing a window into the spiritual crisis of the Gilded Age.
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Theodore Roosevelt - Preaching From The Bully Pulpit

by Benjamin J. Wetzel

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 This biography traces Roosevelt's personal religious odyssey from youthful faith and pious devotion to a sincere but more detached adult faith. Based in large part on personal correspondence and unpublished archival materials, this book offers a new interpretation of an extremely significant historical figure.
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Theodore Roosevelt - Preaching From The Bully Pulpit

by Benjamin J. Wetzel

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 This biography traces Roosevelt's personal religious odyssey from youthful faith and pious devotion to a sincere but more detached adult faith. Based in large part on personal correspondence and unpublished archival materials, this book offers a new interpretation of an extremely significant historical figure.
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Arthur Sullivan - A Life Of Divine Emollient

by Ian Bradley

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 This biography reveals how important spiritual factors and influences were to Arthur Sullivan's life and work and explores his rich corpus of sacred pieces, which includes the best-selling Victorian parlour ballad 'The Lost Chord' and the tune of 'Onward, Christian Soldiers'.
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Arthur Sullivan - A Life Of Divine Emollient

by Ian Bradley

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 This biography reveals how important spiritual factors and influences were to Arthur Sullivan's life and work and explores his rich corpus of sacred pieces, which includes the best-selling Victorian parlour ballad 'The Lost Chord' and the tune of 'Onward, Christian Soldiers'.
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Margaret Mead - A Twentieth-Century Faith

by Elesha J. Coffman

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 This volume introduces a side of Margaret Mead that few people know. Coffman provides a fascinating account of Mead's life and reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns.
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